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So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle…
“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Egypt — darkness that can be felt.’ So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. No one could see anyone else or leave his place for…
“Pharaoh’s officials said to him, ‘How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?’” (Exodus 10:7 NIV84) The Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:14, “The natural man cannot accept the things…
“But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there, in order that you may know that I, the Lord, am in the midst of the land. I will put a division between My people and your people. Tomorrow this…
“This is what the Lord says: ‘By this you will know that I am the Lord: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood.’” — Exodus 7:17 (NIV84) The first plague to hit the Egyptian people was that the water of…
“Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.” — Exodus 7:11&12 (NIV84) As the Lord commanded Moses, he performed the same miracle with his staff…
“Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.” — Exodus 7:7 (NIV84) No wonder Moses thought someone else should do the job he was called to do. He and Aaron were in their 80s when they were called to deliver the Israelites from Egypt. Their eyes of sight saw the illogical…
“And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.” — Exodus 7:5 (NIV84) “And the Egyptians will know” are the words God shared with Moses about what would occur when He was done punishing the Egyptians for their harsh treatment…
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.” God also said to Moses, “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and…
“Moses returned to the Lord and said, ‘O Lord, why have you brought trouble upon this people? Is this why you sent me? Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble upon this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.’” — Exodus 5:22-23 (NIV84) Poor Moses!…