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And Jehovah saith unto Moses , `See , I have given thee a god to Pharaoh , and Aaron thy brother is thy prophet ;
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thou -- thou dost speak all that I command thee, and Aaron thy brother doth speak unto Pharaoh , and he hath sent the sons of Israel out of his land .
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`And I harden the heart of Pharaoh , and have multiplied My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt ,
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and Pharaoh doth not hearken , and I have put My hand on Egypt , and have brought out My hosts, My people, the sons of Israel , from the land of Egypt by great judgments ;
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and the Egyptians have known that I [am] Jehovah , in My stretching out My hand against Egypt ; and I have brought out the sons of Israel from their midst .'
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And Moses doth -- Aaron also -- as Jehovah commanded them; so have they done;
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and Moses [is] a son of eighty years, and Aaron [is] a son of eighty and three years, in their speaking unto Pharaoh .
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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron , saying,
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`When Pharaoh speaketh unto you, saying, Give for yourselves a wonder; then thou hast said unto Aaron , Take thy rod, and cast before Pharaoh -- it becometh a monster.'
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And Moses goeth in -- Aaron also -- unto Pharaoh , and they do so as Jehovah hath commanded ; and Aaron casteth his rod before Pharaoh , and before his servants , and it becometh a monster.
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And Pharaoh also calleth for wise men, and for sorcerers; and the scribes of Egypt , they also, with their flashings, do so,
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and they cast down each his rod, and they become monsters, and the rod of Aaron swalloweth their rods ;
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and the heart of Pharaoh is strong, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken .
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And Jehovah saith unto Moses , `The heart of Pharaoh hath been hard, he hath refused to send the people away;
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go unto Pharaoh in the morning , lo, he is going out to the water , and thou hast stood to meet him by the edge of the River, and the rod which was turned to a serpent thou dost take in thy hand ,
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and thou hast said unto him: Jehovah , God of the Hebrews , hath sent me unto thee, saying, Send My people away, and they serve Me in the wilderness ; and lo, thou hast not hearkened hitherto.
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`Thus said Jehovah : By this thou knowest that I [am] Jehovah ; lo, I am smiting with the rod which [is] in my hand , on the waters which [are] in the River, and they have been turned to blood ,
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and the fish that [are] in the River die , and the River hath stank , and the Egyptians have been wearied of drinking waters from the River.'
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And Jehovah saith unto Moses , `Say unto Aaron , Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand against the waters of Egypt , against their streams, against their rivers , and against their ponds, and against all their collections of waters; and they are blood -- and there hath been blood in all the land of Egypt , both in [vessels of] wood , and in [those of] stone .'
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And Moses and Aaron do so, as Jehovah hath commanded , and he lifteth up [his hand] with the rod, and smiteth the waters which [are] in the River, before the eyes of Pharaoh , and before the eyes of his servants , and all the waters which [are] in the River are turned to blood ,
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and the fish which [is] in the River hath died , and the River stinketh , and the Egyptians have not been able to drink water from the River; and the blood is in all the land of Egypt .
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And the scribes of Egypt do so with their flashings, and the heart of Pharaoh is strong, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken ,
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and Pharaoh turneth and goeth in unto his house , and hath not set his heart even to this;
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and all the Egyptians seek water round about the river to drink , for they have not been able to drink of the waters of the River.
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And seven days are completed after Jehovah's smiting the River,