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Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh

And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.

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I will Stretch Out My Hand

And Jehovah said to Moses, See, I have made thee God to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

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You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.

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Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the children 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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And I will render Pharaoh's heart obdurate, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

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Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.

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And Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

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The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”

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And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.

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Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.

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And Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah had commanded them: so did they.

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

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Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

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Aaron's Staff Becomes a Serpent

And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

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“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”

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When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Do a miracle for yourselves, -- then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy staff and cast [it] before Pharaoh -- it will become a serpent.

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So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.

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And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and did so, as Jehovah had commanded; and Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh, and before his bondmen, and it became a serpent.

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Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts.

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And Pharaoh also called the sages and the sorcerers; and they too, the scribes of Egypt, did so with their enchantments:

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For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

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they cast down every man his staff, and they became serpents; but Aaron's staff swallowed up their staves.

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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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And Pharaoh's heart was stubborn, and he hearkened not to them, as Jehovah had said.

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The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.

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The First Plague: Blood

And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened: he refuseth to let the people go.

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Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent.

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Go unto Pharaoh in the morning -- behold, he will go out unto the water -- and take thy stand by the bank of the river in front of him; and take in thy hand the staff that 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.” But so far, you have not obeyed.

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And say unto him, Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has sent me to thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness; but behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened.

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Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.

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Thus saith Jehovah: In this shalt thou know that I am Jehovah -- behold, I will smite with the staff that is in my hand upon the water which is in the river, and it shall be turned into blood.

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The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’”

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And the fish that is in the river shall die; and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink the water out of the river.

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And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy staff, and stretch out thy hand upon the waters of the Egyptians -- upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout 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 staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood.

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And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah had commanded; and he lifted up the staff, and smote the waters that were in the river before the eyes of Pharaoh, and before the eyes of his bondmen; and all the waters that were in the river were turned into blood.

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And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

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And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river; and the blood was throughout 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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And the scribes of Egypt did so with their sorceries; and Pharaoh's heart was stubborn, neither did he hearken to them, as Jehovah had said.

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Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.

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And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and took not this to heart either.

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And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.

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And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

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Seven full days passed after the Lord had struck the Nile.

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And seven days were fulfilled, after Jehovah had smitten the river.

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Exodus 7

Exodus 7