But he said, "You are lazy, very lazy; therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.'This would seem like an excuse by Pharaoh to justify punishing the Israelites. However, as I read this, I realize it could very easily be a true statement under different circumstances. I know that I've been guilty of trying to get out of work by using statements like this.
It's very easy for many people to get out of doing something they don't want to, by going and doing something else that is "better", or more noble, or nicer. I was very good at that in middle and high school. I used to get bored sitting back in the sound booth with my family, listening to the pastor's sermon about something that didn't have anything to do with me, so I would go and find out if the 3-yr-old class was short a helper, and that would almost always get me out of there. What I was doing was good, but I was doing it for all the wrong reasons. So as crazy as this might sound as an excuse Pharaoh thought up, it's not as far-fetched as we would like it to seem.
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