Chapter 6:
6: 13-27 goes through the family history of Moses...didn't we get most of that already, and why now, in the middle of the book?
Ted: It was at that juncture that Moses, for the nth time, told God that he was an incompetent speaker. So God declared Aaron to be Moses' official spokesperson. It also was just before God started doing miraculous things through them. So it might have been that this was the "official start" of their work; therefore, a genealogy was in order at that point, explaining who these guys really were. Interestingly, in Luke 3:21-38, a genealogy of Jesus is given just after His baptism and just before He begins his official work on earth, so maybe there is a parallel.

I'm surprised God didn't get really angry with Moses when he kept trying to weasel out of talking to the Pharaoh.
Ted: Well, He did earlier when moses asked Him to send somebody else, but yes, God was VERY patient with him.

The other thing that was surprising to me in this section was the ability of these Egyptian magicians to replicate these miracles.