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Hardening Pharaoh's Heart
In the first five plagues, what we're told about pharaoh's heart is either that he hardens his heart after each one. But it's only in the second set of five that you get then saying, away, hardened his heart. And so God eventually steps in and excels lerate and intensify the evil to a point where it just collapses in on itself. That's god's strategy for overcoming evil in the story: Let the evil grow so large that the process that pharaoh's evil began, god just carries out to its bitter end.