The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: rigour:
EXO 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter,
and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their
service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
EXO 1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which
the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
EXO 1:16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew
women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill
him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
EXO 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt
commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
King James Bible |