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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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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 render Pharaoh's heart obdurate, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt .
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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 Jehovah , when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt , and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
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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 was eighty -three years old , when they spoke to Pharaoh .
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And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron , saying,
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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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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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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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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 was stubborn, and he hearkened not to them, as Jehovah had said .
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And Jehovah said to Moses , Pharaoh's heart is hardened: he refuseth to let the people go .
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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 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 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 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 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, 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 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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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 , and took not this to heart either.
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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 were fulfilled, after Jehovah had smitten the river.