

17 Thus says the Lord, “By this ( R)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 ( S)it shall turn into blood. 16 And you shall say to him, ‘The ( P) Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, ( Q)that they may serve me in the wilderness.” But so far, you have not obeyed. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand ( N)the staff that turned into a ( O)serpent. 15 ( M)Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. The First Plague: Water Turned to Bloodġ4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh's heart is hardened he refuses to let the people go. 13 Still ( K)Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, ( L)as the Lord had said. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. 12 For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the ( I)magicians of Egypt, also ( J)did the same by their secret arts.

Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.

7 Now Moses was ( G)eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.Ĩ Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Pharaoh says to you, ( H)‘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.’” 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. 5 The Egyptians ( F)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.” 6 Moses and Aaron did so they did just as the Lord commanded them. 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. 3 But ( D)I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I ( E)multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. 2 ( C)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. 7 And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like ( A)God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your ( B)prophet.
