“And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.”
Now the Lord had said to Moses: I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely. The announcement is definitive: one more. After nine plagues, ten confrontations, nine hardenings, the final act is announced. The phrase he will drive you out completely is striking — the same word used when Pharaoh drove Moses and Aaron from his presence in Exodus 10:11. What was an act of contemptuous expulsion will become an act of desperate pleading. Pharaoh's drive-you-out of Moses from his court becomes Pharaoh's drive-you-out of Israel from his country, and the two events are connected: the man who expelled the messenger will be compelled to expel the people the messenger represented. Acts 7:36 summarizes the entire Exodus: he led them out of Egypt after performing wonders and signs.
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