Marc Chagall, Moses and Aaron with the Pharaoh, Litograph, 26x35 cm

In 1966 Chagall achieves 24 colored lithographs on the theme of the Exodus from Egypt, marked by the guidance of the three sons of Amram, Moses, Aaron and Miriam. In this work are represented Moses and Aaron, who, according to the Scriptures, came to Pharaoh and told him: "Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Let my people depart and I hold a feast in the desert." Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know him and I will not let his own people." They told him: "The God of the Hebrews has revealed to us. There is therefore allowed to leave for a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to our God, because there with pestilence or with the sword." The king of Egypt said to them: "Why, Moses and Aaron, let the people from his work? Go back to your work!". And he added: "There, now outnumber the people of the land, and you would like us to cease from their burdens!" There is a picture in the catalog "Marc Chagall, the illustrated books," Patrick Cramer Publisher, Geneva 1995, pg. 203, number Mourlot 451.