We have never before seen language like this. The entire divine plan has evidently changed course. No longer do we hear the idea, so ubiquitous until this point, that the coming plagues will arrive so that Egypt will know that YHVH is God. No, the object is different now. The plagues will continue, to be sure, and they will continue to demonstrate the truth of the Creator-God. But Egypt and Pharaoh are no longer their intended audience. Instead, all this will happen... ...so that you will know that I am YHVH (Exodus 10:2)
