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Moses Before Pharaoh

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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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 Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel 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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And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My 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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But Pharaoh will not heed you, so that I may lay My hand on Egypt and bring My [a]armies and My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

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

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

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

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Aaron’s Miraculous Rod

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

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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 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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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 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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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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But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the [b]sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their [c]enchantments.

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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 every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

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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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And Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed 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: Waters Become Blood

So the Lord said to Moses: “Pharaoh’s heart is hard; 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, 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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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 God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may [d]serve Me in the wilderness”; but indeed, until now you would not hear!

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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, 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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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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And the fish that are in the river shall die, the river shall stink, and the Egyptians will loathe[e] to drink the water of the river.” ’ ”

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Then the magicians of Egypt did so with their [f]enchantments; and Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed 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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And Pharaoh turned and went into his house. Neither was his heart moved by this.

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

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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 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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And seven days passed after the Lord had struck the river.

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

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