Exodus 7:1-7

Contemporary English Version

7 The Lord said:

I am going to let your brother Aaron speak for you. He will tell your message to the king, just as a prophet speaks my message to the people. ² Tell Aaron everything I say to you, and he will order the king to let my people leave his country. ^3-4 (A) But I will make the king so stubborn that he won't listen to you. He won't listen even when I do many terrible things to him and his nation. Then I will bring a final punishment on Egypt, and the king will let Israel's families and tribes go. ⁵ When this happens, the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.

⁶ Moses and Aaron obeyed the Lord ⁷ and spoke to the king. At the time, Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron was 83.