Exodus 5:14-16

Expanded Bible

¹⁴ ·The king’s [^LPharaoh’s] slave masters had made the Israelite ·foremen [supervisors] responsible for the work the people did. The Egyptian slave masters beat these men and asked them, “Why ·aren’t you making as many bricks as you made in the past [^Ldid you not complete the number of bricks yesterday and today, as you did before]?”

¹⁵ Then the Israelite ·foremen [supervisors] went to ·the king [^LPharaoh] and ·complained [protested], “Why are you treating us, your servants, this way? ¹⁶ You give ·us [^Lyour servants] no straw, but we are commanded to make bricks. Our slave masters beat us, but it is your own people’s ·fault [offense; sin].”