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.