Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go?
I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.” So they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go three days’ journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”a. Let My people go: To appreciate how audacious Moses’ request was, we must understand the power and authority the Pharaohs claimed. Each Pharaoh was said to be the child of the sun; he was a friend to the greatest gods of Egypt and sat with them in their own temples to receive worship alongside them. Pharaoh was nothing like a public servant; the entire public lived to serve the Pharaoh. His power and authority were supreme and there was no constitution or law or legislature higher or even remotely equal to him.i. An inscription by a Pharaoh on an ancient Egyptian temple gives us the idea: “I am that which was, and is, and shall be, and no man has lifted my veil.” The Pharaoh was more than a man; he considered himself a god, and the Egyp
