Exodus 7:1–13 · BSB
7:1
The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
7:2
You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.
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7:3
But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
7:4
Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
7:5
And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”
7:6
So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.
7:7
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
7:8
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
7:9
“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”
7:10
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.
7:11
But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.
7:12
Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.
7:13
Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
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