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Seeing a taskmaster beat one of his own kin, Moses looked this way and that, gathering the angels into a court to weigh whether the man deserved to die.
Pharaoh swore he made the Nile and needed nothing, so God set Moses as a god over him and sent him to ambush the king at the river at dawn.
A price on his head, Moses fled Egypt into Midian, where the priest Jethro took him in as a friend and bound him by oath before giving Zipporah.
The formless One came as a warrior at the Sea and turned four faces at the mountain, and each Israelite heard one Word bent to his own strength.
Pharaoh read a star named Evil rising to bleed Israel, but God turned the omen into covenant blood and the sea took the man who dug the pit.
Abraham fell on his face when God gave him a password no one else knew. Serah bat Asher, a girl in Egypt, would be the last to hold it.
The ten blows that broke Egypt were never spent. Blood, hail and darkness wait in God's hand to fall on wicked Rome exactly as they fell on Pharaoh.
Pharaoh hung Egypt's gold on the horses and rode them into the sea. In the pit every other fallen king found company. Pharaoh did not.
A king of flesh and blood would kill a man for sitting in his chair. God set a runaway shepherd in the doorway with the Name Pharaoh had claimed.
History is scored by ten great songs. At the split sea, angels and Israel raced to sing first, and one mortal voice set the melody.
Pharaoh went down to the Nile at dawn as if the river still belonged to him. Aaron stood on the bank with the rod already raised.
God orders every Israelite household to bind Egypt's holy lamb at the doorpost and slaughter it the night the empire's firstborn die.
The old king died and the elders walked into the hall. Israel had grown too many, they said. The next Pharaoh stood a cubit and a span tall.
An Egyptian priest wrote that shepherd kings seized Egypt without a battle and later built Jerusalem, and Josephus read him as a witness.
Pharaoh's chariots behind them and a sea that will not open ahead, and God answers Israel's weeping by remembering a knife on Moriah.
Armed angels came down to the Sea and God sent them home. Moses remembered that, and would not take one as escort into Canaan.
