¹ And Jehovah said to Moses, See, I have given thee as a god to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

² Thou shalt speak all that I command thee, and Aaron thy brother shall speak to Pharaoh, and let him send the sons of Israel out of his land.

³ And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My miracles in the land of Egypt.

⁴ And Pharaoh will not hear you; and I will put^◦ My hand upon the Egyptians, and lead out My armies, My people, the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, with great judgments.

⁵ And the Egyptians shall·​·know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt, and lead out the sons of Israel from the midst of them.

⁶ And Moses and Aaron did so; as^◦ Jehovah commanded them^◦, so they did.

⁷ And Moses was a son of eighty years, and Aaron a son of three and eighty years, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

⁸ And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

⁹ And Pharaoh shall speak to^▵ you, saying, Give for yourselves a miracle, and thou shalt say to^▵ Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, it shall become a sea·​·serpent^*.

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron came to^▵ Pharaoh, and they did as^◦ Jehovah had commanded; and Aaron cast his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a sea·​·serpent.

¹¹ And Pharaoh also called the wise and the sorcerers; and they^◦ also, the magicians of Egypt, did so with their enchantments.

¹² And they cast every man^◦ his rod, and they became sea·​·serpents; and Aaron’s rod swallowed·​·up their rods.

¹³ And the heart of Pharaoh was made·​·firm, and he hearkened not to them; as^◦ Jehovah had spoken.

¹⁴ And Jehovah said to^▵ Moses, The heart of Pharaoh is made·​·heavy, he refuses to send· the people ·away.

¹⁵ Go to^▵ Pharaoh in the morning; behold, he goes·​·out to^▫ the waters; and thou shalt stand^◦ on the lip of the river^◦ to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent take in thy hand.

¹⁶ And thou shalt say to 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; and behold hitherto thou hast not heard.

¹⁷ Thus says Jehovah, In this thou shalt know that I^◦ am Jehovah; behold I^▵ smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river^◦, and they shall be turned to blood.

¹⁸ And the fish that is in the river^◦ shall·​·die, and the river^◦ shall stink; and the Egyptians shall be·​·weary to drink waters from the river^◦.

¹⁹ And Jehovah said to^▵ Moses, Say to^▵ Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch·​·out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over the branches of their Nile, and over their ponds, and over every reservoir of their waters, and they shall be blood; and there shall be blood in all the land of Egypt, and in the trees and in the stones.

²⁰ And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded; and he lifted·​·high the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river^◦, to the eyes of Pharaoh, and to the eyes of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river^◦ were turned into blood.

²¹ And the fish that was in the river^◦ died; and the river^◦ stank, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river^◦; and there was blood in all the land of Egypt.

²² And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments; and the heart of Pharaoh was made·​·firm, and he hearkened not to them, as^◦ Jehovah had spoken.

²³ And Pharaoh turned· his ·face back, and came to his house, and did not set^◦ his heart even to this.

²⁴ And all the Egyptians dug all around the river^◦ for waters to drink; for they could not drink of the waters of the river^◦.

²⁵ And seven days were·​·fulfilled after that Jehovah had smitten the river^◦.