8So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?”
9“We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
10Then Pharaoh told them, “May the LORD be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones. Clearly you are bent on evil. 11No, only the men may go and worship the LORD, since that is what you have been requesting.” And Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.
The pharaoh at first relents and tells Moses, “Go, worship the LORD your God,”, but then his hard heart gets in the way. He asks, “But who exactly will be going?”
The pharaoh didn’t want to loose his slave labor force, he wanted hostages to force the return of the men.
He seems to relent with qualifications.
After all the plagues, he still doesn’t know who the Lord is.
The pharaoh sinned again, discipline is coming.....
I can see it now, a rider on a horse running at great speed with the rider yelling....
The locusts are coming! The locusts are coming!
Have you ever sinned knowing that the Lord would discipline you for your actions?
Blessings, David
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