Exodus 5:15

¹³And the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given you.

¹⁴And the accountants of the race of the children of Israel, who were set over them by the masters of Pharaoh, were scourged, and questioned, men saying, Why have ye not fulfilled your rates of brickwork as yesterday and the third day, today also?

— Exodus 5:15 —

¹⁶Straw is not given to thy servants, and they tell us to make brick; and behold thy servants have been scourged: thou wilt therefore injure thy people.

¹⁷And he said to them, Ye are idle, ye are idlers: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to our God.