But Moses replied to the Lord, “If the Israelites did not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with difficulty?”

And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

But if you diligently obey him and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.

The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “It is the sound of war in the camp!”

When the people heard this troubling word they mourned; no one put on his ornaments.

He said, “If you will diligently obey the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the Lord, am your healer.”

God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Moses answered again, “And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you’?”

“If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.

and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.

I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

Tell him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say, “Release my people, that they may serve me in the desert!” But until now you have not listened.

But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron – just as the Lord had predicted.