The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
EXO 5:9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour
therein; and let them not regard vain words.
EXO 5:10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their
officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I
will not give you straw.
EXO 5:11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of
your work shall be diminished.
EXO 5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of
Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
EXO 5:13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works,
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