Exodus 5:15-18

15Then the Hebrew foremen came to Pharaoh and cried, “Why do you deal like this with your servants?

16No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And look, your servants are being beaten, but it is the fault of your own people.”

17But Pharaoh said, “You are lazy, very lazy and idle! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

18Get out now and get to work; for no straw will be given to you, yet you are to deliver the same quota of bricks.”