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[clark thompson]

Exodus 8:1-15



CLV(i)1 then Yahweh said to Moses: Enter to Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says Yahweh : Dismiss My people that they may serve Me!" 2 And if you refuse to dismiss them, behold, I will be striking all your boundary with frogs. 3 The waterway will swarm with frogs, and they will ascend and enter into your house and your bed chamber and onto your couch, into the house of your servants and on your people, into your stoves and into your kneading-troughs. 4 On you and on your people and on all your servants shall the frogs ascend. 5 Then Yahweh said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Stretch out your hand with your rod over the streams, over the waterways and over the ponds, and bring up the frogs on the land of Egypt. 6 Now Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt. And the frogs ascended and covered the land of Egypt. 7 Also the sacred scribes did so with their occultisms, and they brought up frogs over the land of Egypt. 8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said: Make an entreaty to Yahweh that He may take away the frogs from me and from my people; then I shall dismiss the people that they may sacrifice to Yahweh. 9 Moses said to Pharaoh: Vaunt yourself over me as to when I should make entreaty for you and for your servants and for your people to cut off the frogs from you and from your houses. But in the waterway shall they remain. 10 So he said: Tomorrow. And he said: Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is no one as Yahweh our Elohim. 11 The frogs will withdraw from you and from your houses, from your servants and from your people. But in the waterway shall they remain. 12 Then Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the matter of the frogs which He had appointed for Pharaoh. 13 So Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died from the houses, from the hamlets and from the fields. 14 They piled them up, homer after homer, and the land stank. 15 When Pharaoh saw that there came to be an interval, he caused his heart to glory, and he hearkened not to them, just as Yahweh had spoken.

These are my thoughts please share yours.

1 God always gives Pharoah a chance to do things the easy way before He pours out His wrath on Egypt. At this point all they were asking to do was go worship but God's plan was to have them leave Egypt after the plagues of wrath that destroy Egypt.

2 God has Moses warn Pharoah and tells him what will happen if the refuse to listen to the Lord. In Egypt there was a god of fertillity that looked like a frog. Pharoah may have looked to his gods to save him.

3-4 Frogs would be everywhere. This was even problem than we know because the Nile may still have been blood but there would have been a lack of water because scripture does not say it went back to clean water. So everything that may have been clean would have frogs on it and water would not have been used to clean because the remaining wtaer would be used only to drink.

5 The Lord had them do the same thing when the water turned to blood.

6 God's word comes true as it always does.

7 They try again to use there magic to remove the frogs but again are unsuccessful. When we put our power in other things we are almost always to fail.

8 Pharoah lies to Moses to get his way. Pharoah may have knew for a momoment that the true God could remove the frogs and knew that Moses spoke to Him. Pharoah may have also thought he could trick the Lord with a lie.

9 Moses was going t pray for Pharoah so the frogs would leave everywhere but the Nile. Pharoah probably went to Moses last. Pharoah may have prayed to the gods that had not been shot down by God thru the plagues but nothing was done and the magicans did not help any either.

10 Moses was going to have God remove all the frogs to show His power to Pharoah.

11 He reasures Pharoah which may have brought Pharoah relef. Sometimes we ourselves need to remind God's word and power.

12 They prayed for Pharoah like they said they would. When we tell somebody we will pray for them, we need to pray for them. We do not need to forget them,and if we think we will forget we should write it down or pray for them right then.

13 The frogs died. This required the people to remove the frogs which made them think of God's power.

14 Imagine having so many dead frogs that the land began to smell bad.

15 Pharoah decided not to uphold hiss end of the deal he had with Moses. We should not make promises because we may not keep them. Pharoah was stuborn sometimes after God gives us what we wnat we continue to go back to they way we were instead of following God more closely.