Exodus 7:1-10 ▼

1 So the LORD said to Moses, |See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

2 You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.

3 But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

5 Then the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.

6 And Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the LORD commanded them.

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

8 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

9 When Pharaoh says to you, 'Do a miracle,' and you say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,' it will become a snake.|

10 When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the LORD had commanded them--Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.