^16 (A)Lift up your staff, and ^(B)stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.

¹⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and ^(A)stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

²⁶ Then the Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.”

²⁰ So Moses took ^(A)his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took ^(B)the staff of God in his hand.

¹⁷ And take in your hand ^(A)this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”

² The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, ^(A)“A staff.”

²⁶ And ^(A)the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck ^(B)Midian ^(C)at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it ^(D)as he did in Egypt.

⁹ “When Pharaoh says to you, ^(A)‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”

¹¹ And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, ^(A)and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.

^8 (A)“Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So ^(B)you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.” ⁹ And Moses took the staff ^(C)from before the Lord, as he commanded him.