Exodus 7:12
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New International Version (©2011)
Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They threw down their staffs, which also became serpents! But then Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron's staff swallowed their staffs.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So each one threw down his staff and it became a serpent, but Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

NET Bible (©2006)
Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Each of them threw his staff down, and they all became large snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed theirs.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

American King James Version
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

American Standard Version
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they every one cast down their rods, and they were turned into serpents: but Aaron's rod devoured their rods.

Darby Bible Translation
they cast down every man his staff, and they became serpents; but Aaron's staff swallowed up their staves.

English Revised Version
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

Webster's Bible Translation
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

World English Bible
For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

Young's Literal Translation
and they cast down each his rod, and they become monsters, and the rod of Aaron swalloweth their rods;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:8-13 What men dislike, because it opposes their pride and lusts, they will not be convinced of; but it is easy to cause them to believe things they wish to be true. God always sends with his word full proofs of its Divine authority; but when men are bent to disobey, and willing to object, he often permits a snare to be laid wherein they are entangled. The magicians were cheats, trying to copy the real miracles of Moses by secret sleights or jugglings, which to a small extent they succeeded in doing, so as to deceive the bystanders, but they were at length obliged to confess they could not any longer imitate the effects of Divine power. None assist more in the destruction of sinners, than such as resist the truth by amusing men with a counterfeit resemblance of it. Satan is most to be dreaded when transformed into an angel of light.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. Aaron's serpent turned upon its rivals and devoured them, thus exhibiting a marked superiority.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents,.... That is, they seemed to be so, as Josephus (z) expresses it, but not really, in which he is followed by many; though some think that the devil assisted in this affair, and in an instant, as soon as the rods were cast down, removed them and put real serpents in their room:

but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods; that is, the serpent that Aaron's rod was turned into, swallowed up the rods of the magicians, which never were otherwise than rods only in appearance; or if real serpents were put in the room of them, these were devoured by his serpent called his rod, because it was before turned into a serpent, as Aben Ezra observes; though the Targums of Jonathan, Jarchi, and R. Jeshua, suppose this was done after the serpent became a rod again; which makes the miracle the greater and more wonderful, that a rod should devour other rods; and supposing them real serpents, this was what the magicians could not make their rods do, and in which they were outdone by Aaron.

(z) Antiqu. ut supra. (l. 2. c. 13 sect. 3.)

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12. but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods—This was what they could not be prepared for, and the discomfiture appeared in the loss of their rods, which were probably real serpents.

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Aaron's Staff Becomes a Serpent
…11Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. 12For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. 13And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he listened not to them; as the LORD had said.

2 Timothy 3:9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
Exodus 7:11 Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts:
Exodus 7:13 Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
Exodus 8:18 But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not. Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere,