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Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don`t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
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A Clash of Worldviews
Commentators explain that Pharaoh's question, "Who is the Lord?" stems from his Egyptian worldview. In his polytheistic culture, gods were seen as local or national deities with limited power. He genuinely did not recognize Yahweh as a god with any authority over him or the nation of Egypt, viewing Him as an unknown, foreign entity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I know not the Lord - Either Pharaoh had not heard of Yahweh, or he did not recognize Him as a God.
19th Century
Anglican
Who is the Lord?—Heb., Who is Jehovah? If Jehovah was a name whose use had been laid aside, as the later chapters of Gene…
16th Century
Protestant
And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord? It is scarcely believable that such madness could exist in a mortal, to deliberately scorn God and thus…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord Jehovah, they made mention of, which, whether he took it for the name of a deity, …
God will own his people, though poor and despised, and will find a time to plead their cause. Pharaoh treated all he had heard with contempt. He ha…
