Did God con the Egyptian Pharaoh by using his own beliefs?

In this podcast, I discuss two incidents in the Exodus account, when God delivered Israel out of Egypt, that has always puzzled me. Why didn't the Egyptian pharaoh order a hit job and kill Moses? Why did the Pharaoh demand that the Hebrew boys be thrown in the Nile River, rather than just killing the babies on the spot?

Oddly, I believe the reasoning behind these two decisions are connected, and it reveals how God conned the Egyptian pharaoh using his own beliefs.

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