15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?
16No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, `Make brick!` and, behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."
17But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, `Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.`
18Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!"
19The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"
20They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
21and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."
