Then the Lord said to Moses: go to Pharaoh and say to him: this is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says — let my people go so that they may worship me. The fifth plague cycle opens with the same demand as the first four. The repetition is not editorial laziness but theological insistence: God's message does not change with the evidence. He does not escalate the demand in response to Pharaoh's resistance; He keeps saying the same thing because the same thing is what is needed. Micah 6:8 reduces the covenant requirement to its essence: do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God. The demand of the plagues is the simplest possible application of these three: acknowledge who God is, release the people He claims, and walk in obedience to His word. Pharaoh's refusal is not complexity — it is the most basic form of human rebellion against the most basic form of divine authority.

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