⁹ 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.

¹⁸ Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?

¹¹ Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.

³⁰ So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

² And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.

¹⁷ And take in your hand this rod with which you will do the signs.

³⁸ But if I am doing them, then have belief in the works even if you have no belief in me; so that you may see clearly and be certain that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.

³⁹ But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:

³ Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.

¹² For from the past God is my King, working salvation in the earth.

¹³ The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

¹³ And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.

²³ And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ 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 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 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.

²⁰ And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand.