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Exodus 7
⁴ When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments.
⁵ The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst."
⁶ So Moses and Aaron did it; as the Lord commanded them, thus they did.
⁷ Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
⁸ Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
⁹ "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ’Work a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ’Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’"
¹⁰ So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.
¹¹ Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.
¹² For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
¹³ Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn; he refuses to let the people go.