Exodus 6:14-7:13

New King James Version

The Family of Moses and Aaron^(A)

¹⁴These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: ^(B)The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben. ¹⁵^(C)And the sons of Simeon were ^[a]Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These are the families of Simeon. ¹⁶These are the names of ^(D)the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven. ¹⁷^(E)The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimi according to their families. ¹⁸And ^(F)the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred and thirty-three. ¹⁹^(G)The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Levi according to their generations.

²⁰Now ^(H)Amram took for himself ^(I)Jochebed, his father’s sister, as wife; and she bore him ^(J)Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and thirty-seven. ²¹^(K)The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. ²²And ^(L)the sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Zithri. ²³Aaron took to himself Elisheba, daughter of ^(M)Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, as wife; and she bore him ^(N)Nadab, Abihu, ^(O)Eleazar, and Ithamar. ²⁴And ^(P)the sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These are the families of the Korahites. ²⁵Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and ^(Q)she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

²⁶These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their ^(R)armies.”^[b] ²⁷These are the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, ^(S)to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are the same Moses and Aaron.

Aaron Is Moses’ Spokesman

²⁸And it came to pass, on the day the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, ²⁹that the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the Lord. ^(T)Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.”

³⁰But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, ^(U)I am ^[c]of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh heed me?”

Moses Before Pharaoh

7 So the Lord said to Moses: “See, I have made you ^(V)as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be ^(W)your prophet. ²You ^(X)shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land. ³And ^(Y)I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and ^(Z)multiply My ^(AA)signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴But ^(AB)Pharaoh will not heed you, so ^(AC)that I may lay My hand on Egypt and bring My ^[d]armies and My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt ^(AD)by great judgments. ⁵And the Egyptians ^(AE)shall know that I am the Lord, when I ^(AF)stretch out My hand on Egypt and ^(AG)bring out the children of Israel from among them.”

⁶Then Moses and Aaron ^(AH)did so; just as the Lord commanded them, so they did. ⁷And Moses was ^(AI)eighty years old and ^(AJ)Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Aaron’s Miraculous Rod^(AK)

⁸Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ⁹“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ^(AL)‘Show a miracle for yourselves,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ^(AM)‘Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.’ ” ¹⁰So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just ^(AN)as the Lord commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it ^(AO)became a serpent.

¹¹But Pharaoh also ^(AP)called the wise men and ^(AQ)the ^[e]sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also ^(AR)did in like manner with their ^[f]enchantments. ¹²For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. ¹³And Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, as the Lord had said.