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Let My People Go: Exodus 7-11 (The Plagues) - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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Let My People Go: Exodus 7-11 (The Plagues)

Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

Moses returned to Egypt with his brother Aaron. The staff in his hand. The word of God on his lips. The demand: Let my people go.

Pharaoh refused. Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD and I will not let Israel go.

He would learn.

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