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Yahweh. God is now declaring who He is to those who do not yet know or those who are seeking to know. Remember God called Moses because He had heard the cries of His people in Egypt. God is now going to reveal Himself to His people and to the world.

His divine position LORD
God is also called Lord and this designates His position in the universe. The Israelites have lived under the rule of the Pharaoh and Egypt for too long. The Egyptian belief was that the Pharaoh was a god and the ruler over them. No one could stand against his rule and now God was going to step in to declare Himself.

His divine Power - God
God also declares Himself as Almighty. The Hebrew elohim is used here to describe that He is the Almighty God of all the universe.

Who was God going to reveal Himself to?
The people of Israel (6:7)
God was going to show Himself to His people Israel and reveal the things that only he could do. He was going to show them that He was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He was their God and He would be their deliverer. His wrath was going to be poured out on Egypt for the suffering of His people.

The people of Egypt (7:5)
And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it."

God was going to reveal Himself to the people of Egypt and remind them who really was God. Before all would be finished, everyone in Egypt would know that God was above all and over all.

Pharaoh (7:17)
14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake. 16 Then say to him, `The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the desert. But until now you have not listened. 17 This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. 18 The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.' " Exodus 7:14-18

God was going to show Pharaoh that he was not a god and was not above any other man. Pharaoh was a mere mortal and God was God.

The Ten Plagues reveal the Supremacy of God (Egyptian gods and goddesses)
The miracles that happen here in these chapters of Exodus are far from random. In fact, each plague

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