The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.

²² But ^(A)the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So ^(B)Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as ^(C)the Lord had said.

¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw that there was a ^(A)respite, he ^(B)hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

³⁴ But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and ^(A)hardened his heart, ^(B)he and his servants.