||The Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh's administrators had appointed, were flogged. They were told, 'Yesterday and today you did not complete your quotas. Why didn't you make as many bricks as before?'
Vayuku shotrey beney Yisra'el asher-samu alehem nogsey Far'oh lemor madua lo chilitem chokchem lilbon kitmol shilshom gam-temol gam-hayom.
||The Israelite foremen came and protested to Pharaoh. 'Why are you doing this to us?' they said.
Vayavo'u shotrey beney Yisra'el vayits'aku el-Par'oh lemor lamah ta'aseh choh la'avadeycha.