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Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you.
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The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
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Then Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform.
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Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites,
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and Aaron told them everything the Lord had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people,
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Bricks Without Straw
Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’”
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But the king of Egypt said, “Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!”
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When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them,
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Family Record of Moses and Aaron
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
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Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
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Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
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Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families, clan by clan.
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It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.”
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They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing the Israelites out of Egypt—this same Moses and Aaron.
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Aaron to Speak for Moses
Now when the Lord spoke to Moses in Egypt,
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Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
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You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country.
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Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them.
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Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
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Aaron’s Staff Becomes a Snake
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
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“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”
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So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.
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Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
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The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs—and they will turn to blood.’ Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels of wood and stone.”
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Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.
