“Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.”
Exodus 5:18 (KJV)
Context Reading
16There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. 17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD. 18Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. 19And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task. 20¶ And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: