“And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.”
Tomorrow, Pharaoh said. Moses replied: it will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the Lord our God. The phrasing no one like the Lord is one of the foundational declarations of Israelite theology — Exodus 15:11 will repeat it in the Song of the Sea, and Micah 7:18 will ask rhetorically: who is a God like you? The plague narrative is not just about liberation; it is about knowledge. Each plague is designed to produce a specific form of knowing — knowing the power, the justice, the sovereignty, the incomparability of the God of Israel. Pharaoh chooses tomorrow, and Moses accepts. Tomorrow the frogs will leave at the appointed time. The precise fulfillment will be the evidence that no one like the Lord our God exists, not in Egypt's pantheon, not anywhere.
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