Exodus 7:1-10 ▼

1 The LORD told Moses, |Listen! I've positioned you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

2 You are to speak everything that I've commanded you, and then your brother Aaron will speak to Pharaoh, telling him to let the Israelis go out of his land.

3 I'll harden Pharaoh's heart and I'll add more and more of my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

4 When Pharaoh won't listen to you, I'll let loose my power upon Egypt. I'll bring out my tribal divisions—my people the Israelis—from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

5 The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand over Egypt to bring the Israelis out from among them.|

6 Moses and Aaron did what the LORD commanded them.

7 Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.

8 Then the LORD told Moses and Aaron,

9 |When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a miraculous sign,' then you are to say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it in front of Pharaoh.' It will become a serpent.|

10 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did what the LORD had commanded them. Aaron threw his staff in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.