Exodus 6:30   (Read all of Exodus 6)

But Moses said to the Lord, "Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?"

Exodus 7:1   (Read all of Exodus 7)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

Exodus 7:2   (Read all of Exodus 7)

You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country.

Exodus 7:3   (Read all of Exodus 7)

But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,

Exodus 7:5   (Read all of Exodus 7)

And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it."

Exodus 7:7   (Read all of Exodus 7)

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

Exodus 7:8   (Read all of Exodus 7)

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

Exodus 7:9   (Read all of Exodus 7)

"When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a miracle,' then say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,' and it will become a snake."

Exodus 7:10   (Read all of Exodus 7)

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.

Exodus 7:11   (Read all of Exodus 7)

Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts:

Exodus 7:12   (Read all of Exodus 7)

Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

Exodus 7:13   (Read all of Exodus 7)

Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

Exodus 7:14   (Read all of Exodus 7)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.

Exodus 7:15   (Read all of Exodus 7)

Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.

Exodus 7:16   (Read all of Exodus 7)

Then say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened.

Exodus 7:17   (Read all of Exodus 7)

This is what the Lord says: By this you will know that I am the Lord: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood.

Exodus 7:18   (Read all of Exodus 7)

The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.' "

Exodus 7:19   (Read all of Exodus 7)

The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt-over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs-and they will turn to blood.' Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels of wood and stone."

Exodus 7:20   (Read all of Exodus 7)

Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.

Exodus 7:21   (Read all of Exodus 7)

The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.

Exodus 7:22   (Read all of Exodus 7)

But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh's heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.

Exodus 7:25   (Read all of Exodus 7)

Seven days passed after the Lord struck the Nile.

Exodus 8:1   (Read all of Exodus 8)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

Exodus 8:2   (Read all of Exodus 8)

If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country.