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📚✭And the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God✭ to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. 2 📚You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land. 3 📚✭And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 📚But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that I may lay my hand on Egypt and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel from the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 📚And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them”.6 📚And Moses and Aaron did so. They did just as the LORD commanded them. 7 📚And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Aaron’s staff becomes a snake
9 📚✭“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle for yourselves’, then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and throw it down before Pharaoh and it will become a snake.’ ”
10 📚And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did just as the LORD had commanded. And Aaron threw his rod down before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a snake. 11 📚✭Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did the same thing with their magic spells. 12 📚✭For they all threw down their rods and they became snakes, but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. 13 📚✭And the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
God sends plagues on Egypt
14 📚And the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart has become hardened. He refuses to let the people go. 15 📚Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Then he goes down to the water, and you shall stand on the river’s bank waiting for his coming, and you shall take in your hand the rod that was turned into a snake. 16 📚And you shall say to him, ‘The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go, so that they may serve me in the desert. Up until now you would not listen. 17 📚Thus says the LORD, You will know✭ that I am the LORD by this: See, I will strike the water that is in the river with the rod that is in my hand, and it will be turned into blood. 18 📚And the fish that are in the river will die, and the river will stink, and the Egyptians will loathe drinking of the water of the river.’ ”
19 📚✭And the LORD spoke to Moses, “Say to Aaron, Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, over their rivers, over their ponds, and over all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and so that there may be blood throughout the whole land of Egypt, both in wooden containers, and in stone containers”.
20 📚And Moses and Aaron did so, just as the LORD commanded. And he lifted up the rod and struck the water that was in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the river turned to blood. 21 📚And the fish that were in the river died, and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river. And there was blood throughout the whole land of Egypt.
22 📚✭And the magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their magic spells, and so Pharaoh’s heart was hardened; he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had said. 23 📚And Pharaoh turned and went into his house; he did not let his heart dwell on this either. 24 And all the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the river.
Frogs
25 📚And seven days passed after the LORD had struck the river.