Exodus 7:1-10 ▼

1 The LORD answered Moses: See! I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

2 You will speak all that I command you. In turn, your brother Aaron will tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.

3 Yet I will make Pharaoh so headstrong that, despite the many signs and wonders that I work in the land of Egypt,

4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Therefore I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring my armies, my people the Israelites, out of the land of Egypt.

5 All Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of their midst.

6 This, then, is what Moses and Aaron did. They did exactly as the LORD had commanded them.

7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

8 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

9 When Pharaoh demands of you, “Produce a sign or wonder,” you will say to Aaron: “Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will turn into a serpent.”

10 Then Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it turned into a serpent.