Exodus 7Book 2 of 66 · 25 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. So the LORD said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet."
  2. You shall speak all that I command you, and Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  3. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply My miraculous signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
  4. But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that I may lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My armies and My people, the children of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.
  5. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
  6. Moses and Aaron did this; they did just as the LORD had commanded them.
  7. Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they made their demands to Pharaoh.
  8. Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
  9. When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Prove yourselves by working a miracle,' then you shall say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.'
  10. So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did just as the LORD had commanded, and Aaron threw down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
  11. But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, so the magicians of Egypt also did the same thing with their secret arts.
  12. For every man threw down his staff, and they turned into serpents, but Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.
  13. And Pharaoh's heart grew hard, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.
  14. So the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hard and stubborn; he refuses to let the people go."
  15. Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he is going out to the water, and stand ready by the river's bank to meet him, and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.
  16. 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 worship Me in the wilderness"; but so far you have not listened!
  17. 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 staff that is in my hand, and it shall be turned to blood.
  18. And the fish that are in the river shall die, the river will become foul, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink the water of the river.
  19. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, over their rivers, over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood. And there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and pitchers of stone.'"
  20. Moses and Aaron did so, just as the LORD commanded, and he lifted up the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his officials, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.
  21. The fish that were in the river died, the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river, so there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
  22. But the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts, and Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.
  23. And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.
  24. So all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the river.
  25. Seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.