¹⁶ Straw is not being given to your servants, but they are saying to us, ‘Make bricks!’ and, look, your servants are being beaten, but it is the fault of^[a] your people.” ¹⁷ And he said, “You are lazy, lazy! Therefore you are saying, ‘Let us go; let us sacrifice to Yahweh.’ ¹⁸ And now go, work, but straw will not be given to you, and you must give the full quota of bricks.”