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And the LORD said to Moses , "
See ,
I make 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 let the people of Israel go out of his land .
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But I will harden Pharaoh '
s heart ,
and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt ,
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Pharaoh will not listen to you ;
then I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring forth my hosts ,
my people the sons of Israel ,
out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment .
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And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD ,
when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them ."
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And Moses and Aaron did so ;
they did as the LORD commanded them .
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Now Moses was eighty years old ,
and Aaron eighty -
three years old ,
when they spoke to Pharaoh .
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And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron ,
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When Pharaoh says to you , `
Prove yourselves by working a miracle ,'
then you shall say to Aaron , `
Take your rod and cast it down before Pharaoh ,
that it may become a serpent .'"
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So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the LORD commanded ;
Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and his servants ,
and it became a serpent .
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Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers ;
and they also ,
the magicians of Egypt ,
did the same by their secret arts .
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For every man cast down his rod ,
and they became serpents .
But Aaron '
s rod swallowed up their rods .
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Still Pharaoh '
s heart was hardened ,
and he would not listen to them ;
as the LORD had said .
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Then the LORD said to Moses , "
Pharaoh '
s heart is hardened ,
he refuses to let the people go .
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Go to Pharaoh in the morning ,
as he is going out to the water ;
wait for him by the river '
s brink ,
and take in your hand the rod which was turned into a serpent .
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And you shall say to him , `
The LORD ,
the God of the Hebrews ,
sent me to you ,
saying , "
Let my people go ,
that they may serve me in the wilderness ;
and behold ,
you have not yet obeyed ."
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Thus says the LORD , "
By this you shall know that I am the LORD :
behold ,
I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the rod that is in my hand ,
and it shall be turned to blood ,
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and the fish in the Nile shall die ,
and the Nile shall become foul ,
and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the Nile ."'"
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And the LORD said to Moses , "
Say to Aaron , `
Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt ,
over their rivers ,
their canals ,
and their ponds ,
and all their pools of water ,
that they may become blood ;
and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt ,
both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone .'"
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Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded ;
in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants ,
he lifted up the rod and struck the water that was in the Nile ,
and all the water that was in the Nile turned to blood .
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And the fish in the Nile died ;
and the Nile became foul ,
so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile ;
and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt .
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But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts ;
so Pharaoh '
s heart remained hardened ,
and he would not listen to them ;
as the LORD had said .
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Pharaoh turned and went into his house ,
and he did not lay even this to heart .
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And all the Egyptians dug round about the Nile for water to drink ,
for they could not drink the water of the Nile .
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Seven days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile .