Exodus 5:16
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”

Young's Literal Translation
Straw is not given to thy servants, and they are saying to us, Make bricks, and lo, thy servants are smitten—and thy people hath sinned.’

King James Bible
There 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.

Hebrew
No
אֵ֤ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

straw
תֶּ֗בֶן (te·ḇen)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8401: Material, refuse haum, stalks of grain

has been given
נִתָּן֙ (nit·tān)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

to your servants,
לַעֲבָדֶ֔יךָ (la·‘ă·ḇā·ḏe·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

yet we are told,
אֹמְרִ֥ים (’ō·mə·rîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘Make
עֲשׂ֑וּ (‘ă·śū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

bricks!’
וּלְבֵנִ֛ים (ū·lə·ḇê·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 3843: Brick, tile

Look,
וְהִנֵּ֧ה (wə·hin·nêh)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

your servants
עֲבָדֶ֛יךָ (‘ă·ḇā·ḏe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

are being beaten,
מֻכִּ֖ים (muk·kîm)
Verb - Hofal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 5221: To strike

but the fault
וְחָטָ֥את (wə·ḥā·ṭāṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn

[is] with your own people.”
עַמֶּֽךָ׃ (‘am·me·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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