17. But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
18. Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
19. The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”
20. They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came out from Pharaoh:
21. and they said to them, “May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
22. Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
23. For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; and you have not rescued your people at all.”