Exodus 5:15-21 the clerks of the children of Israel went and cried to Pharao saying, Why dost thou deal thus with thy servants?

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ the clerks of the children of Israel went and cried to Pharao saying, Why dost thou deal thus with thy servants? ¹⁶ There is no straw given to thy servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks. And lo! thy servants are beaten. Wilt thou then deal unjustly with thy people? ¹⁷ But he said to them, You are idle: You are idlers. Therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. ¹⁸ Go therefore now and work; for there shall be no straw given you, yet you shall deliver the task of bricks. ¹⁹ So the clerks of the children of Israel saw themselves in a miserable situation, when they said, You shall be allowed no abatement from the customary daily task of brick making. ²⁰ And upon meeting Moses and Aaron who had come to meet them as they came out from Pharao ²¹ they said to them, God look upon you and judge. For you have made the smell of us horrible before Pharao and before his servants to put a sword in his hand to kill us.