Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10
Plague 8: locusts. Before the plague is announced Pharaoh's servants break with him: Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined? Let the men go and serve their God. The pressure from within the court is real. Pharaoh negotiates, who exactly will go? When Moses says everyone, Pharaoh refuses. The locusts come and consume everything the hail left. Pharaoh calls Moses in haste: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now forgive my sin just this once and pray to the LORD your God to take away this death from me.
The locusts leave. And Pharaoh's heart is hardened again.
Plague 9: darkness. Moses stretches his hand and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days, darkness that can be felt. No one can see another person; no one moves. But all the Israelites have light in their homes. Ra: the sun god, Egypt's chief deity, the patron of Pharaoh himself who is Ra's son, cannot produce light in his own country. Thread 5 is the theological precision of the darkness: the most powerful Egyptian deity is publicly demonstrated to be powerless before the God of Israel. Pharaoh offers a partial concession: go with your people, but your flocks and herds stay. Moses refuses. The animals are needed for worship. Pharaoh explodes: get away from me; the day you see my face again you will die.
Plagues 8 and 9, Locusts and Darkness: Pharaoh's servants urge him to let Israel go. The court is fracturing; and the darkness that covers Egypt for three days does not touch where Israel lives; Ra the sun god cannot light his own country.
חָטָאתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְלָכֶם (chatati la-YHWH Eloheikhem ve-lakhem): I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you: chatati (I have sinned, Qal perfect of chata; Pharaoh's confession after the locusts; the first time in the narrative he uses the sin-vocabulary; but the confession is immediately followed by another hardening; the confession is pragmatic rather than genuine)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · t5 · see Psalm 105:28 · Acts 7:36 · Revelation 16:10