Exo 7, Exo 14, Deu 4:34, 11:3-4, Psa 78:12-13, 43-53, 105:27-37 | ESV | STEP | And the Lord said to Moses , See , I have made you like God to Pharaoh , and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet .

1 And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like ^aGod to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your ^bprophet. 2 ^cYou shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. 3 But ^dI will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I ^emultiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. 5 The Egyptians ^fshall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.” 6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Now Moses was ^geighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Pharaoh says to you, ^h‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’” 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the ⁱmagicians of Egypt, also ^jdid the same by their secret arts. 12 For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Still ^kPharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, ^las the Lord had said.

The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood

14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. 15 ^mGo to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand ⁿthe staff that turned into a ^oserpent. 16 And you shall say to him, ‘The ^pLord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, ^qthat they may serve me in the wilderness.” But so far, you have not obeyed. 17 Thus says the Lord, “By this ^ryou shall know that I am the Lord: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and ^sit shall turn into blood. 18 The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will ^tgrow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’” 19 And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and ^ustretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

20 Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he ^vlifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the ^wwater in the Nile turned into blood. 21 And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians ^xcould not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. 22 But ^ythe magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So ^zPharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as ^aathe Lord had said. 23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart. 24 And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.

25 Seven full days passed after the Lord had struck the Nile.

Exodus 14

Crossing the Red Sea

1 Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the people of Israel to ^abturn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between ^acMigdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ 4 And ^adI will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will ^aeget glory over Pharaoh and all his host, ^afand the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.

5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the ^agmind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” 6 So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, 7 and took ^ahsix hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. 8 And ^aithe Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while ^ajthe people of Israel were going out defiantly. 9 The ^akEgyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them ^alencamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.

10 When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel ^amcried out to the Lord. 11 They ^ansaid to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Is not this what ^aowe said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” 13 And Moses said to the people, ^ap“Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For ^aqthe Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14 ^arThe Lord will fight for you, and you have only ^asto be silent.”

15 The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. 16 ^atLift up your staff, and ^austretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground. 17 And ^avI will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and ^awI will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians ^axshall know that I am the Lord, ^aywhen I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

19 ^azThen the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, 20 coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night ^{▼▼Septuagint and the night passed} without one coming near the other all night.

21 Then Moses ^bbstretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by ^bca strong east wind all night and ^bdmade the sea dry land, and the waters were ^bedivided. 22 And ^bfthe people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being ^bga wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 25 clogging ^{▼▼Or binding (compare Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac); Hebrew removing} their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the ^biLord fights for them against the Egyptians.”

26 Then the Lord said to Moses, ^bj“Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” 27 ^bkSo Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea ^blreturned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord ^bmthrew ^{▼▼Hebrew shook off} the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. 28 The ^bowaters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, ^bpnot one of them remained. 29 But the ^bqpeople of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

30 Thus the Lord ^brsaved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 ^bsIsrael saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they ^btbelieved in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

Deuteronomy 4:34

34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, ^buby signs, by wonders, and ^bvby war, ^bwby a mighty hand and ^bxan outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 11:3-4

3 ^byhis signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land, 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, ^bzhow he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day,

Psalms 78:12-13

12 In the sight of their fathers ^cahe performed wonders
in the land of Egypt, in ^cbthe fields of Zoan.
13 He ^ccdivided the sea and let them pass through it,
and made the waters ^cdstand like a heap.

Psalms 78:43-53

43 ^cewhen he performed his ^cfsigns in Egypt
and his ^cgmarvels in ^chthe fields of Zoan.
44 He ^citurned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.
45 He sent among them swarms of ^cjflies, which devoured them,
and ^ckfrogs, which destroyed them.
46 He gave their crops to ^clthe destroying locust
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with ^cmhail
and their sycamores with frost.
48 He gave over their ^cncattle to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49 He let loose on them his burning anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of ^codestroying angels.
50 He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death,
but gave their lives over to the plague.
51 He struck down every ^cpfirstborn in Egypt,
the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^cqHam.
52 Then he led out his people ^crlike sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 ^csHe led them in safety, so that they ^ctwere not afraid,
but ^cuthe sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Psalms 105:27-37

27 ^cvThey performed his signs among them
and miracles in ^cwthe land of Ham.
28 He ^cxsent darkness, and made the land dark;
they ^cydid not rebel ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac omit not} against his words.
29 He turned their waters into blood
and ^dacaused their fish to die.
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in ^dbthe chambers of their kings.
31 He spoke, and there came ^dcswarms of flies,
^ddand gnats throughout their country.
32 He gave them hail for rain,
and fiery ^delightning bolts through their land.
33 He struck down their vines and fig trees,
and ^dfshattered the trees of their country.
34 He spoke, and the ^dglocusts came,
young locusts without number,
35 which devoured all the vegetation in their land
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 He ^dhstruck down all the firstborn in their land,
^dithe firstfruits of all their strength.
37 Then he brought out Israel with ^djsilver and gold,
and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.