No! Have only the men go and worship the Lord, since that's what you have been asking for. Then Pharaoh drove them out of his presence. The driving out of Moses and Aaron from Pharaoh's presence marks a deterioration in the relationship between the court and the messengers. The audience is not merely refused; it is terminated by force. The phrase drove them out echoes the language of expulsion throughout Genesis — Hagar driven out, Jacob fleeing, Joseph sold. The one who drives out cannot ultimately contain what God is releasing. Every person driven from a place of power in Scripture eventually demonstrates that the power that expelled them was not the final power. Moses driven from Pharaoh's court will return to announce the final plague and watch Pharaoh beg him to leave.

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