1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for ^jI have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these ^ksigns of mine among them, 2 and that ^lyou may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the Lord.”