Exodus 6:28–7:7

“I’ll Make You as a God to Pharaoh”

²⁸And that’s how things stood when God next spoke to Moses in Egypt.

²⁹God addressed Moses, saying, “I am God. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”

³⁰And Moses answered, “Look at me. I stutter. Why would Pharaoh listen to me?”

^1–57God told Moses, “Look at me. I’ll make you as a god to Pharaoh and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron will tell it to Pharaoh. Then he will release the Israelites from his land. At the same time I am going to put Pharaoh’s back up and follow it up by filling Egypt with signs and wonders. Pharaoh is not going to listen to you, but I will have my way against Egypt and bring out my soldiers, my people the Israelites, from Egypt by mighty acts of judgment. The Egyptians will realize that I am God when I step in and take the Israelites out of their country.”

^6–7Moses and Aaron did exactly what God commanded. Moses was eighty and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.