Exodus 5:18:
Pharaoh: “So go now and work; for you will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the quota of bricks.”
Wall painting from the Tomb of Rekhmire, 15th Century BC
Papyrus Anastasi IV, 1250 BC:
“. . . and there are neither men to make bricks nor straw.”
British Museum
The Leather Scroll , Quota for Brick-making, 1274BC:
“Yupa, son of Urhiya, (quota of ) 2000 bricks —1630 arrived, deficit 370”
The Louvre
Exodus 2:11
“He (Moses) saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen.”
Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave, Tomb of Rekhmire, 15th Century BCE