“And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.”
All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, go, you and all the people who follow you! After that I will leave. Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh. Moses announces with prophetic precision what will happen after the tenth plague: Pharaoh's officials will bow before him — the man they threatened to kill — and beg him to leave. This is the reversal of every expulsion Moses has experienced. The anger Moses leaves with is not uncontrolled rage but righteous fury — the same anger God expressed at the burning bush (Exodus 4:14) and the same anger Nehemiah expressed at economic injustice in Nehemiah 5:6. Moses is not angry for himself; he is angry for the people whose suffering has been prolonged by nine rounds of bad faith. Ephesians 4:26 says be angry but do not sin — Moses' anger is in this category: justified, expressed, and then channeled into action.
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