²¹ The Lord instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do all the wonders before Pharaoh 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 Yahweh^(A) when I stretch out My hand^(B) against Egypt, and bring out the Israelites from among them.”

¹⁷ For the Scripture tells Pharaoh:

²² And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience^(A) objects of wrath ready 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)—