Exodus:7:1-25
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So the LORD said to Moses : "
See ,
I have made you as God to Pharaoh ,
and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet .
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You shall speak all that I command you .
And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land .
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And I will harden Pharaoh '
s heart ,
and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt .
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But Pharaoh will not heed you ,
so that I may lay My hand on Egypt and bring My armies and My people ,
the children of Israel ,
out of the land of Egypt by great judgments .
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And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD ,
when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them ."
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Then Moses and Aaron did so ;
just as the LORD commanded them ,
so they did .
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And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh .
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron ,
saying ,
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When Pharaoh speaks to you ,
saying , "
Show a miracle for yourselves ,'
then you shall say to Aaron , "
Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh ,
and let it become a serpent ."'
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So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh ,
and they did so ,
just as the LORD commanded .
And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants ,
and it became a serpent .
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But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers ;
so the magicians of Egypt ,
they also did in like manner with their enchantments .
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For every man threw down his rod ,
and they became serpents .
But Aaron '
s rod swallowed up their rods .
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And Pharaoh '
s heart grew hard ,
and he did not heed them ,
as the LORD had said .
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So the LORD said to Moses : "
Pharaoh '
s heart is hard ;
he refuses to let the people go .
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Go to Pharaoh in the morning ,
when he goes out to the water ,
and you shall stand by the river '
s bank to meet him ;
and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand .
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And you shall say to him , "
The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me to you ,
saying , "
Let My people go ,
that they may serve Me in the wilderness ";
but indeed ,
until now you would not hear !
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Thus says the LORD : "
By this you shall know that I am the LORD .
Behold ,
I will strike the waters which are in the river with the rod that is in my hand ,
and they shall be turned to blood .
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And the fish that are in the river shall die ,
the river shall stink ,
and the Egyptians will loathe to drink the water of the river .""'
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses , "
Say to Aaron , "
Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt ,
over their streams ,
over their rivers ,
over their ponds ,
and over all their pools of water ,
that they may become blood .
And there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt ,
both in buckets of wood and pitchers of stone ."'
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And Moses and Aaron did so ,
just as the LORD commanded .
So he lifted up the rod and struck the waters that were in the river ,
in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants .
And all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood .
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The fish that were in the river died ,
the river stank ,
and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river .
So there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt .
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Then the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments ;
and Pharaoh '
s heart grew hard ,
and he did not heed them ,
as the LORD had said .
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And Pharaoh turned and went into his house .
Neither was his heart moved by this .
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So all the Egyptians dug all around the river for water to drink ,
because they could not drink the water of the river .
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And seven days passed after the LORD had struck the river .
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