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he sent signs and wonders
    into your midst, O Egypt,
    against Pharaoh and all his servants.(A)

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15 but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,[a]
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 136.15 Or Sea of Reeds

22 The Lord displayed before our eyes great and awesome signs and wonders against Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his household.

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36 He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.(A)

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20 You showed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt and to this day in Israel and among all humankind and have made yourself a name that continues to this very day.(A) 21 You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror,(B)

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Awake, awake, put on strength,
    O arm of the Lord!
Awake, as in days of old,
    the generations of long ago!
Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
    who pierced the dragon?(A)
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
    the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a way
    for the redeemed to cross over?(B)

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27 They performed his signs among them
    and miracles in the land of Ham.(A)
28 He sent darkness and made the land dark;
    they rebelled[a] against his words.(B)
29 He turned their waters into blood
    and caused their fish to die.(C)

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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.

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10 You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted insolently against our ancestors. You made a name for yourself that remains to this day.(A)

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34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?(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. 13 However, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.(K)

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.(L) 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water; stand by at the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.(M)

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