Exodus 7:1-12
I Will Extend My Hand
1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “ aSee, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2As for you, you shall speak all that I command you, and your brother bAaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land. 3But cI will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that I may dmultiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. 4When ePharaoh does not listen to you, I will lay My hand on Egypt and fbring out My armies, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by ggreat judgments. 5Then hthe Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I iextend My hand over Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.” 6So Moses and Aaron did this; jas the Lord commanded them, so they did. 7And Moses was keighty years old and Aaron ▼▼Lit 83 years old
eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh. Aaron’s Staff Turns into a Serpent
8 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 9“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘ ▼▼Lit Show a wonder for yourselves
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nWork a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘ oTake your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, so that it may turn into a serpent.’” 10So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and so they did, just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and ▼▼Lit before his
his servants, and it qturned into a serpent. 11Then Pharaoh also rcalled for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they too, the ssoothsayer priests of Egypt, did the same with ttheir secret arts. 12For each one threw down his staff, and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.
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