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God, Pharaoh and Moses: Explaining the Lord’s Actions in the Exodus Plagues Narrative is unavailable, but you can change that!

The story of the Exodus from Egypt is of fundamental importance, both in the Old Testament and beyond. However, it also contains issues that are theologically problematic for readers, especially concerning the actions of God. Why does God send a series of plagues on Egypt? How do we understand the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart? What do the answers to these questions say about the character of God?...

However, YHWH has not done this. Instead he has sustained Pharaoh, keeping him (and his people) alive (v 16). Until this plague there has been no mention of the death of Egyptians, only animals. He has done this, not out of some humanitarian impulse, but rather as part of his program of self-revelation to Pharaoh, and beyond him to all the earth. This preservation from previous death thus has a similar aim to that of the plague that YHWH is about to send. Compare the similarities of v 14 ‘you will
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