Exodus 5:16-19
5:16 No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,
‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even
being beaten, but the fault
is with your people.”
5:17 But Pharaoh replied, “You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’
5:18 So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”
5:19 The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”