^{1 Ref} And the Lord said to Moses, See I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

^{2 Ref} Say whatever I give you orders to say: and Aaron your brother will give word to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of his land.

^{3 Ref} And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and wonders will be increased in the land of Egypt.

^{4 Ref} But Pharaoh will not give ear to you, and I will put my hand on Egypt, and take my armies, my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt, after great punishments.

^{5 Ref} And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand is stretched out over Egypt, and I take the children of Israel out from among them.

^{6 Ref} And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders, so they did.

^{7 Ref} And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.

⁸ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

^{9 Ref} If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to Aaron, Take your rod and put it down on the earth before Pharaoh so that it may become a snake.

^{10 Ref} Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the Lord had said: and Aaron put his rod down on the earth before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake.

^{11 Ref} Then Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the wonder-workers, and they, the wonder-workers of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.

^{12 Ref} For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.

^{13 Ref} But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

^{14 Ref} And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart is unchanged; he will not let the people go.

^{15 Ref} Go to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the water, you will be waiting for him by the edge of the Nile, with the rod which was turned into a snake in your hand;