²¹ The Lord instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart^[a](A) so that he won’t let the people go.

⁵ The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord^(A) when I stretch out my hand^(B) against Egypt and bring out the Israelites from among them.”

¹⁷ For the Scripture tells Pharaoh, I raised you up for this reason so that I may display my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in the whole earth.^[a](A)

²² And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience^(A) objects of wrath prepared for destruction?^{(B) 23} And what if he did this to make known the riches of his glory^(C) on objects of mercy^(D) that he prepared beforehand for glory^(E)—