¹⁶ They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

^{17 Ref} But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

^{18 Ref} Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.