When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them. The positioning is significant: Moses and Aaron are waiting outside, having sent the foremen in with God's message, and are still present when the foremen emerge with nothing. They did not leave for Midian when Pharaoh refused. They are there to face what comes next. This is the pastoral dimension of Moses' commission — he does not deliver a message and disappear; he waits for the people who are bearing the weight of the consequences. Galatians 6:2 says carry each other's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Moses' waiting is a small act of solidarity that costs something: whatever the foremen are about to say to him will not be comfortable. Leadership that delivers divine messages and vanishes when the situation worsens is not the leadership Exodus models.

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