ECB(i)
7 Never again give the people straw for brickmaking, as three yesters ago: let them go and gather straw for themselves:
8 and set on them the quantity of bricks they worked three yesters ago: diminish naught thereof, for they are lazy: so they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our Elohim.
9 Let the service be heavy on the men and their work; and look not to false words.
10 And the exactors and the officers of the people go out and say to the people, saying, Thus says Paroh, I give you no straw.
11 You - you go: take straw where you find it: that no word of your service diminishes.
12 - and the people scatter throughout all the land of Misrayim to gather stubble instead of straw.
13 And the exactors hasten them, saying, Finish your works, your day by day words, as when there is straw.
14 And the officers of the sons of Yisra El, whom the exactors of Paroh set over them, are smitten, saying, Why finish you not your statute of brickmaking both yesterday and today, as three yesters ago?
15 Then the officers of the sons of Yisra El come and cry to Paroh, saying, Why work you thus with your servants?
16 They give no straw to your servants and they say to us, Work brick! And behold, your servants are smitten; but the sin is in your own people.
17 And he says, Lazy, lazy: so you say, Let us go and sacrifice to Yah Veh.
18 And now, go; serve: and no straw is given you: yet you give the gauge of bricks.
19 And the officers of the sons of Yisra El see that they are in evil, saying, Diminish not bricks of your day by day word.
20 And they encounter Mosheh and Aharon who station themselves to confront them as they come from Paroh:
21 and they say to them, Yah Veh see you and judge! Because you stink our scent in the eyes of Paroh and in the eyes of his servants to give a sword in their hand to slaughter us.