The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: people, and their officers, saying,
EXO 5:7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as
heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
EXO 5:8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye
shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be
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.
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