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Today, Exodus chapter 7 through 13.

So as far as the history of the Old Testament is concerned, this particular lesson, combined with the lesson

for next week, these two, the Passover, the plagues of Egypt concluding with the Passover,

and the crossing of the Red Sea, everything moving forward, people are going to keep

referring back to these two events.

So this is a really big deal. Being in Egypt, trying to convince Pharaoh to let these people go,

and he's not, and by the way, from an earthly perspective, can we blame him? He has this huge, fairly low, low-price workforce, these servants, these slaves of his,

they build up cities for him.

He doesn't want to let them go.

And so that's where we, that's where we jump in today in chapter seven of Exodus.

You'll notice verse 1 says, the Lord said unto Moses, see, I have made thee a God to Pharaoh,

and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

That wording feels really strange to us in the King James Version.

If you look at your footnote, there's some clarifications here that he has made thee as a god,

not into a god. And now you put that in its Egyptian context, and it makes a lot more sense.

I'm going to make you so, so powerful and mighty Moses that the people will see you as their

perception of what a God is, because keep in mind in Egypt, how many gods and goddesses

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