Exodus 5:14
King James Version
“And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?”
Context
11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
13And the taskmasters hasted saying, Fulfil your works, daily tasks, as when there was straw.
14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
16There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants beaten; but the fault in thine own people.
17But he said, Ye idle, idle: therefore ye say, Let us go do sacrifice to the LORD.