Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:15 | and posted in Big Exit
During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested." Exodus 12:31
Pharaoh's eldest son and heir to his throne (a Son of God the Egyptians believed) died in the tenth plague causing him to summon Moses and Aaron in the middle of the night. Instead of killing them as he had promised (see Exodus 10:28), Pharaoh humbly surrendered to all of Moses' demands.
As he does this, Pharaoh uses the term 'Israelites' for the first time. At last he had recognised the sovereign identity of his slaves.
