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Exodus chapter 10 verse 24.

Then Pharaoh called Moses and said,

Go serve the Lord.

Your little ones also may go with you.

Only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.

So this was a temptation in a sense for Moses.

After plague, after plague, after plague,

Pharaoh in the book of Exodus is still not delivering

the people of Israel from slavery. He's not letting them go.

So finally in his frustration he says to Moses, okay you can go, your little ones can go with you,

but let your flocks and your herds stay here but that's not

what God had said. God had said he was going to deliver the Israelites from

slavery in Egypt and not only were all the Israelites including the little ones going to go but the flocks and herds were going to go and not only that but the people of Egypt were going to send all kinds of goods with them.

But I can only imagine it was tempting at this point for Moses to say,

okay, like we got to this point.

Let's compromise in a sense.

Okay, if he's willing to let us go,

that's better than staying.

So let's go, even though we won't take the flocks and the herds, we'll go anyway, because

Pharaoh's giving us that much. But that is not what God had called Moses to do. God had called Moses to do.

God had called Moses to deliver this people out of slavery in Egypt with all the flocks and herds

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