Exo 7, Exo 15, Psa 78:11-13, 43-51, 105:27-36 | 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 15

The Song of Moses

1 Then Moses and the people of Israel ^absang this song to the Lord, saying,

^ac“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider ^{▼▼Or its chariot; also verse 21} he has thrown into the sea.
2 ^aeThe Lord is my strength and my ^afsong,
and he has become ^agmy salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him,
^ahmy father’s God, and ^aiI will exalt him.
3 The Lord is ^aja man of war;
^akthe Lord is his name.
4 ^al“Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea,
and his chosen ^amofficers were sunk in the Red Sea.
5 The ^anfloods covered them;
they ^aowent down into the depths like a stone.
6 ^apYour right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
your right hand, O Lord, ^aqshatters the enemy.
7 In the ^argreatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;
you send out your fury; it ^asconsumes them like stubble.
8 At the ^atblast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
the ^aufloods stood up in a heap;
the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, ^av‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
I ^awwill divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
10 You ^axblew with your wind; the ^aysea covered them;
they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 ^az“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
awesome in ^baglorious deeds, ^bbdoing wonders?
12 You stretched out ^bcyour right hand;
the earth swallowed them.
13 “You have ^bdled in your steadfast love the people whom ^beyou have redeemed;
you have ^bfguided them by your strength to your holy abode.
14 ^bgThe peoples have heard; they tremble;
pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
15 Now are the chiefs of Edom ^bhdismayed;
trembling seizes the leaders of ^biMoab;
^bjall the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
16 Terror and ^bkdread fall upon them;
because of the greatness of your arm, they are still ^blas a stone,
till your people, O Lord, pass by,
till the people pass by whom ^bmyou have purchased.
17 You will bring them in and ^bnplant them on your own mountain,
the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode,
^bothe sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
18 ^bpThe Lord will reign forever and ever.”
19 For when ^bqthe horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, ^brthe Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. 20 Then ^bsMiriam ^btthe prophetess, the ^busister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and ^bvall the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. 21 And Miriam sang to them:

^bw“Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

Bitter Water Made Sweet

22 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of ^bxShur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23 When they came to ^byMarah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. ^{▼▼ Marah means bitterness} 24 And the people ^cagrumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 And he ^cbcried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, ^{▼▼Or tree} and he ^cdthrew it into the water, and the water became sweet.

There the Lord ^{▼▼Hebrew he} made for them a statute and a rule, and there he ^cftested them, 26 saying, ^cg“If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the ^chdiseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, ^ciyour healer.”

27 Then ^cjthey came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.

Psalms 78:11-13

11 They ^ckforgot his works
and ^clthe wonders that he had shown them.
12 In the sight of their fathers ^cmhe performed wonders
in the land of Egypt, in ^cnthe fields of Zoan.
13 He ^codivided the sea and let them pass through it,
and made the waters ^cpstand like a heap.

Psalms 78:43-51

43 ^cqwhen he performed his ^crsigns in Egypt
and his ^csmarvels in ^ctthe fields of Zoan.
44 He ^cuturned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.
45 He sent among them swarms of ^cvflies, which devoured them,
and ^cwfrogs, which destroyed them.
46 He gave their crops to ^cxthe destroying locust
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with ^cyhail
and their sycamores with frost.
48 He gave over their ^czcattle to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49 He let loose on them his burning anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of ^dadestroying 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 ^dbfirstborn in Egypt,
the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^dcHam.

Psalms 105:27-36

27 ^ddThey performed his signs among them
and miracles in ^dethe land of Ham.
28 He ^dfsent darkness, and made the land dark;
they ^dgdid not rebel ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac omit not} against his words.
29 He turned their waters into blood
and ^dicaused their fish to die.
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in ^djthe chambers of their kings.
31 He spoke, and there came ^dkswarms of flies,
^dland gnats throughout their country.
32 He gave them hail for rain,
and fiery ^dmlightning bolts through their land.
33 He struck down their vines and fig trees,
and ^dnshattered the trees of their country.
34 He spoke, and the ^dolocusts came,
young locusts without number,
35 which devoured all the vegetation in their land
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 He ^dpstruck down all the firstborn in their land,
^dqthe firstfruits of all their strength.