Pharaoh said: lazy — that's what you are — lazy! That is why you keep saying, 'let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.' The repetition of lazy is now addressed directly at the religious request. Pharaoh is not merely diagnosing an economic problem; he is naming worship itself as a symptom of sloth. In his worldview, productive people do not stop to sacrifice; only the idle want religion. This is the ideology of total labor, where human beings exist only in relation to their economic output. It is the same logic behind the suppression of Sabbath, of assembly, of any practice that draws workers away from the machinery of production. Luke 10:41–42 records Jesus rebuking Martha's busyness and affirming Mary's listening: Mary has chosen what is better. Pharaoh would have called Mary lazy too. The conflict is not about productivity versus religion — it is about whether God or Pharaoh has the final claim on human beings.

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