Then the Lord said to Moses: get up early in the morning, confront 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 seventh plague cycle opens as the first and fourth did: get up early, confront Pharaoh at the Nile with the unchanged demand. The early morning confrontation suggests urgency but also regularity — this is the rhythm of the prophetic commission, returning again and again to the same person with the same word. Jeremiah 7:13 records God saying: again and again I spoke to you, but you did not listen. The repetition of God's word is not God's failure to find new arguments; it is God's insistence that the same argument is the right one, and that Pharaoh's refusal does not change the truth that is being refused.

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