¹⁶ But ^(A)lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

¹⁹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and ^(A)stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, over their rivers, over their ponds, and over all their pools of water, that they may become blood. And there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in buckets of wood and pitchers of stone.’ ”

²⁶ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”

²⁰ Then Moses ^(A)took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took ^(B)the rod of God in his hand.

¹⁷ And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”

² So the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”

He said, “A rod.”

²⁶ And the Lord of hosts will ^[a]stir up ^(A)a scourge for him like the slaughter of ^(B)Midian at the rock of Oreb; ^(C)as His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the manner of Egypt.

⁹ “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ^(A)‘Show a miracle for yourselves,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ^(B)‘Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.’ ”

¹¹ Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; ^(A)and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.

^8 (A)“Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus ^(B)you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” ⁹ So Moses took the rod ^(C)from before the Lord as He commanded him.