³ Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and ^(A)it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.

⁹ “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘^[a](A)Work a miraculous wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘^(B)Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a ^[b]serpent.’”