18 Therefore, go and work. Straw will not be given to you, and you will return the customary number of bricks."
19 And the first among the sons of Israel saw themselves in a crisis, because it was said to them, "Nothing at all will be lessened from the bricks throughout each day."
20 And they met with Moses and Aaron, who stood opposite them as they departed from Pharaoh.
21 And they said to them: "May the Lord see and judge, because you have caused our odor to become foul before Pharaoh and his servants, and you have provided him with a sword, in order to kill us."
22 And Moses returned to the Lord, and he said: "Lord, why have you afflicted this people? Why have you sent me?
23 For from the time that I entered to Pharaoh, so as to speak in your name, he has afflicted your people. And you have not freed them."