Exodus 7:9-20
Read Exodus 7 in full →9“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘1,aWork a miraculous wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘bTake your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a 2serpent.’” 10So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as Yahweh had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and 1his 2servants, and it abecame a 3serpent. 11Then Pharaoh also acalled for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the 1,bmagicians of Egypt, did 2the same with ctheir secret arts. 12And each one threw down his staff, and they became 1serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13Yet aPharaoh’s heart was 1hardened with strength, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
The Plague of Water Turning to Blood
14Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is 1hard with firmness; he refuses to let the people go. 15“Go to Pharaoh in the morning 1as ahe is going out to the water, and station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand bthe staff that was turned into a serpent. 16“aAnd you shall say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “bLet My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until now.” 17‘Thus says Yahweh, “aBy this you shall know that I am Yahweh: behold, I am about to strike 1the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and bit will be turned to blood. 18“aAnd the fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will 1become foul, and the Egyptians will bbe weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’” 19Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and astretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their 1streams, and over their pools and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”