¹⁸ 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.

¹⁸ And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to The Lord our God.