Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

Chapter 23
The Ten Plagues of Egypt
This chapter is based on Exodus 5 to 10.
Instructed by angels, Aaron went to meet his brother in the
loneliness of the desert near Horeb. Here Moses told Aaron "all the
words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the signs which He had
commanded him" (Exodus 4:28). Together they journeyed to Egypt
to gather together the elders of Israel. "The people believed; and
when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and
that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads
and worshiped" (Exodus 4:31).
With a message for the king, the two brothers entered the
palace of the Pharaohs as ambassadors from the King of kings:
"Thus says the Lord, God of Israel: 'Let My people go, that they
may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.'"
"Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go?"
demanded the monarch; "I do not know the Lord, neither will I let
Israel go."
Their answer was, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us.
Please let us go three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to
the Lord our God, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the
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