CHILDREN OF EXODUS
Granddaughter
of Aaron
A
monologue for a young girl
By
Robert Allen
“Moses
and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord
hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his
country.” Exodus 11:10
Do
you know how hardheaded and stubborn some people can be when the truth is
staring them right in the face? Take my
brother, for instance. One week ago I
told him that if he ever teased me again about liking a certain boy, he would live
to regret it. And let me tell you, he
regrets it today. Revenge is sweet.
But
his stubborn streak doesn’t even begin to hold a candle to the stupidity of the
Pharaoh who rules this land of Egypt.
He is absolutely ruining the land, and even my Egyptian friends think
so. It all began with the Nile River
turning to blood. But then, you are
probably wondering why I know all of this, me being a girl and all. You see, Aaron is my grandfather. That’s right, the brother of Moses. The one with the big mouth. We always knew that Grandfather liked to
talk, but he has really had something to talk about since his brother showed up
a few weeks ago. Almost immediately
after Moses came back from Midian he talked Grandfather into going with him to
the palace. They walked right into the
hall of the Pharaoh, and Aaron told the king that God wanted him to let all of
the people of Israel leave Egypt. Well,
the Pharaoh just laughed. What would the
Egyptians ever do without us? We do all
the work around here.
So
then Aaron told him that God would turn the Nile River into blood and the king
laughed even harder. But it
happened. And then came the plagues of
frogs and gnats and boils and hail.
Grandfather even warned the rest of our neighbors when the hail was
coming. He told them to bring their
livestock into the barns because God was going to send enough hail to destroy
everything still out in the fields. Some
of our Egyptian neighbors knew enough to listen by that time, and they were
able to keep their cows and sheep safe.
But the ones who listened to the Pharaoh went out the next day to a
scene of total destruction.
Grandfather
Aaron was quite excited the next time they were called back to the palace. The Pharaoh finally admitted that he was
getting the picture, and he begged Moses and Aaron to stop the rain and the
hail. But as soon as they prayed to God
and the hail stopped he changed his mind once again. I told you he was stubborn.
Every
one of the plagues up to that time had been in direct defiance of one of the
gods which the Egyptians worshipped. But
this time Moses and my grandfather decided to take on one of the most powerful
gods in all of Egypt. Ra, the Sun God. They announced to the Pharaoh that Ra would
disappear, that he would be conquered and light would no longer be present
throughout the Two Lands. When it came
time for sunrise the following morning the land remained dark. In fact, the darkness was so thick that it
became oppressive. People couldn’t even
move around in their own houses. Ra was
completely defeated, but it still took three days before Pharaoh summoned them
back to the palace and pled for the light to be restored.
This
time he told them they could leave with their families but couldn’t take their
flocks and herds along. Aaron looked at
Moses who shook his head and my grandfather told the king it wouldn’t
work. They needed the flocks in order to
make their sacrifices to God. And that
stubborn man--after blood, frogs, gnats, flies, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts
and darkness--still hardened his heart.
This time he actually threatened Moses and Aaron. He told them that if they ever came into the
palace courtyard again they would be killed.
Grandfather
Aaron and his brother Moses promised the Pharaoh that he would never see them
again. But that didn’t mean they were
done. One more plague was coming. And let me tell you something. When it did, the Pharaoh would regret that day.
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