7322. 'Say to Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt' means power directed against the falsities residing with the molesters. This is clear from the meaning of 'rod' as natural power, and from the meaning of 'hand' as spiritual power, both dealt with above in 7309, so that 'taking the rod, and stretching out the hand' is exercising spiritual power through the natural; and from the meaning of 'the waters of Egypt' as falsities which molest, also dealt with above, in 7307.