EXODUS 12:31 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said.”
During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said: up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. The reversal is complete. Pharaoh, who last spoke to Moses with a death threat, summons him in the night — the same night he said Moses would die if he returned — and says: up, leave. The dismissiveness of the earlier summons to work in Exodus 5:4 — back to your labor! — is inverted into the urgency of this nighttime expulsion: up, get out. The man who drove Moses from his presence now calls for him in the dark. Every detail of Moses' prediction in Exodus 11:8 is fulfilled: Pharaoh's officials bowing, the urgency of the request. The leader who refused to humble himself is on his knees in the dark, begging the slaves to leave.
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