71 God told Moses, "Look at me. I'll make you as a god to Pharaoh and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. 2 You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron will tell it to Pharaoh. Then he will release the Israelites from his land. 3 At the same time I am going to put Pharaoh's back up and follow it up by filling Egypt with signs and wonders. 4 Pharaoh is not going to listen to you, but I will have my way against Egypt and bring out my soldiers, my people the Israelites, from Egypt by mighty acts of judgment. 5 The Egyptians will realize that I am God when I step in and take the Israelites out of their country." 6 Moses and Aaron did exactly what God commanded. 7 Moses was eighty and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 7:1-7
Commentary on Exodus 7:1-7
(Read Exodus 7:1-7)
God glorifies himself. He makes people know that he is Jehovah. Israel is made to know it by the performance of his promises to them, and the Egyptians by the pouring out of his wrath upon them. Moses, as the ambassador of Jehovah, speaking in his name, laid commands upon Pharaoh, denounced threatenings against him, and called for judgments upon him. Pharaoh, proud and great as he was, could not resist. Moses stood not in awe of Pharaoh, but made him tremble. This seems to be meant in the words, Thou shalt be a god unto Pharaoh. At length Moses is delivered from his fears. He makes no more objections, but, being strengthened in faith, goes about his work with courage, and proceeds in it with perseverance.