Exodus Exodus 9:1-35
At the seventh plague the line that ran between Israel and Egypt now runs through Egypt itself: one of Pharaoh's own servants feared the word of YHWH and brought his household to shelter — the canonical debut of the Gentile God-fearer.
Exodus Exodus 8:1-32
At the fourth plague God draws a visible line through Egypt — and the noun he uses to name that line is not a separation word at all. It is the word the Psalms use for 'redemption.'
Exodus Exodus 7:1-25
Everyone knows the summary: Pharaoh hardens his heart, then God takes over. But the Hebrew tells it by binyan, and the first verse where YHWH is the grammatical subject of the hardening verb is not where we expect — it is plague six.
Exodus Exodus 5:1-23
Pharaoh answers the demand with a question — 'Who is YHWH that I should obey his voice? I do not know YHWH.' The whole plague cycle is the answer to that question, and this chapter ends not in rescue but in bricks without straw and a prophet's complaint.
Exodus Exodus 1:1-22
Exodus opens by continuing Genesis: inside Egypt, Israel fulfils the creation mandate, and when Pharaoh moves to crush that life, two midwives who feared God hold the line between the promise and its extinction.
Genesis Genesis 47:1-31
Aged and dependent on Egyptian grain, Jacob blesses Pharaoh twice. Israel multiplies in exile. A dying oath binds the patriarch's body to Canaan. The covenant blessing proves portable, the land of sojourning still home.
Genesis Genesis 40:1-23
Two officials, two dreams, two opposite verdicts on the same third day — and one Hebrew prisoner who insists that interpretations belong to God. Genesis 40 turns a single verb into life and death, and a forgotten promise into the hinge of God's timing.