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Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in its midst, and afterward I brought you out.(A)

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10 Now go, I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”(A)

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The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.(A) You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.(B) But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.(C) When Pharaoh does not listen to you, I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring my people the Israelites, company by company, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.(D) The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”(E) Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.(F) Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.(G)

Aaron’s Miraculous Rod

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.’ ”(H) 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord had commanded; Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.(I) 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.(J) 12 Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes, but Aaron’s staff swallowed up theirs.

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10 who struck Egypt through their firstborn,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(A)

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He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt,
    both humans and animals;(A)
he sent signs and wonders
    into your midst, O Egypt,
    against Pharaoh and all his servants.(B)

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26 He sent his servant Moses
    and Aaron, whom he had chosen.(A)
27 They performed his signs among them
    and miracles in the land of Ham.(B)
28 He sent darkness and made the land dark;
    they rebelled[a] against his words.(C)
29 He turned their waters into blood
    and caused their fish to die.(D)
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
    even in the chambers of their kings.(E)
31 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
    and gnats throughout their country.(F)
32 He gave them hail for rain
    and lightning that flashed through their land.(G)
33 He struck their vines and fig trees
    and shattered the trees of their country.
34 He spoke, and the locusts came,
    and young locusts without number;(H)
35 they devoured all the vegetation in their land
    and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
    the first issue of all their strength.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. 105.28 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb they did not rebel

43 when he displayed his signs in Egypt
    and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.(A)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them
    and frogs that destroyed them.(B)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
    and their sycamores with frost.(C)
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail
    and their flocks to thunderbolts.(D)
49 He let loose on them his fierce anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
    a company of destroying angels.(E)
50 He made a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave their lives over to the plague.
51 He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
    the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.(F)

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51 That very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, company by company.(A)

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37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides little ones.(A)

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12 Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak.”(A) 13 But he said, “O my Lord, please send someone else.” 14 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, “What of your brother Aaron, the Levite? I know that he can speak well; even now he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you his heart will be glad.(B)

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