Then Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. Come, worship the Lord your God, he said. But tell me who will be going. The willingness to negotiate — come, worship — represents the most significant concession yet. But the question who will be going immediately introduces the condition. Pharaoh is not releasing Israel; he is trying to control the terms of a partial release. The negotiation reveals how far he still is from obedience: every counter-offer is designed to retain some leverage. Matthew 5:37 says let your yes be yes and your no be no — the endless qualifications of Pharaoh's so-called concessions expose a heart that will not give what God asks. The who will be going question is about limiting the scope of obedience, retaining something back, complying in form while resisting in substance.

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