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Pharaoh was stubborn and refused to believe in God: (Exodus 5)
1 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the desert.'" 2 Pharaoh said, "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." Then, God hardened his heart in order to show His power (Exodus 10):
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: 2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
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∙ 10y agoA:
According to the Book of Exodus, each time the pharaoh decided to free the Israelites, God hardened his heart and thereby caused him to once again refuse to free the Israelites. Time after time, God sent a plague against the Egyptians, and time after time the Egyptian pharaoh chose to free the slaves but then refused. By modern standards of morality, God was guilty of gratuitous cruelty in using his power to cause the pharaoh to refuse to free the Hebrew people.
In defence of God, it can be said that the story in the Book of Exodus never really happened. Nearly all scholars now agree that there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in The Bible, although no doubt the Israelites did come to believe that these events occurred. One can imagine that as the early Hebrews sat around listening to one of their favourite stories, they would have cheered at each mention of the plagues and hissed at each refusal by the pharaoh.
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Pharaoh refused for a couple of reasons. One was the perceived financial loss if all the free labor would cease, as he himself implied (Exodus 14:5). Another was sheer obstinacy, in which he hardened his heart.
A careful reading of Exodus (ch.7-12), at least in the original Hebrew, reveals that Pharaoh hardened his own heart in most of the plagues. God only hardened Pharaoh's heart in three of the ten plagues: the sixth, eighth and ninth. That's all.
This means that Pharaoh had full free-will in all of the first five plagues. After he misused this prerogative and hardened his own heart, God then punished him by taking away his free-will for a few of the latter plagues.
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∙ 6y agoThe Egyptian slavery was brought about by God (see Genesis ch.15). It served as the "iron furnace" (Deuteronomy 4:20) which forged us (the Israelites) into a nation and separated the dross. It also taught us the importance of loving the stranger (Deuteronomy 10:19), it showed us the power of God when He redeemed us (Exodus 10:2) as well as His personal concern for us (Exodus 2:24).
The subsequent Exodus is something for which we Jews remain eternally grateful to God. It is one of the reasons given for our observance of God's commands.
1) It was the fulfillment of one of God's promises to Abraham (see Genesis ch.15).
2) It demonstrated God's involvement in this world and in the workings of history.
3) It showed that God's covenant with the Forefathers was still in effect.
4) It was the main preparation for the Giving of the Torah at Sinai several weeks later.
5) In the Exodus, God did miracles for which we remain grateful to this day.
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∙ 6y agoOn a spiritual level, the Egyptian slavery was brought about by God (see Genesis ch.15). It taught us the importance of loving the stranger (Deuteronomy 10:19), it showed us the power of God when He redeemed us (Exodus 10:2) as well as His personal concern for us (Exodus 2:24); and it served as the "iron furnace" (Deuteronomy 4:20) which smelted us (the Israelites) into a nation and separated the dross.
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∙ 9y agoYou don't really need my opinion, and you don't need to wonder any
longer, when it's so abundantly clear at the beginning of Exodus:
tons of cheap (free) labor
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