Exodus 7:1-10 ▼

1 And YHWH said to Moses, “See, I have made you God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

2 You shall speak all that I command you, and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he may send out the sons of Israel from his land.

3 And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

4 And Pharaoh will not listen to you?, and I will put My hand on Egypt and I will bring out My armies, My people, the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am YHWH when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”

6 And Moses and Aaron did as YHWH commanded them; so they did.

7 And Moses was a son of eighty years and Aaron was a son of three and eighty years when they spoke to Pharaoh.

8 And YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you?, saying, ‘Give for yourselves a wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before the face of Pharaoh,’ let it become a monster.”

10 And Moses went in—and Aaron—to Pharaoh, and they did so, as YHWH had commanded. And Aaron cast down his staff before the face of Pharaoh and before the face of his servants, and it became a monster.