Exodus 5:14-16

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁴ Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s slave drivers had set over the people, were beaten^(A) and asked, “Why haven’t you finished making your prescribed number of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”

¹⁵ So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way? ¹⁶ No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault.”