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Exodus 5:18
Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.
Exodus 5:18 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Exodus 5:18 in other translations
Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
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In context
15 And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants?
16 Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before; behold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal.
17 And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.
18 Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.
19 And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.
20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them as they came out from Pharao:
21 And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have, made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have given him a sword, to kill us.
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