Exodus 7 - Prayer Tents

7The LORD said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.H3068H559H4872H7200H5414H430H6547H175H251H50302You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.H1696H6680H175H251H1696H6547H7971H1121H3478H7763But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.H7185H6547H3820H7235H226H4159H776H47144When 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.H6547H8085H5414H3027H4714H3318H6635H5971H1121H3478H776H4714H1419H82015The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them."H4714H3045H3068H5186H3027H4714H3318H1121H3478H84326Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the LORD commanded them.H4872H175H6213H3068H6680H62137Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.H4872H8084H8141H1121H175H8084H7969H8141H1121H1696H6547

Aaron’s Miraculous Rod

8The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,H3068H559H4872H175H5599"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.'"H6547H1696H559H5414H4159H559H175H3947H4294H7993H6440H6547H857710So 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.H4872H175H935H6547H6213H3068H6680H175H7993H4294H6440H6547H6440H5650H857711Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.H6547H7121H2450H3784H2748H4714H6213H3651H385812Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes; but Aaron's staff swallowed up theirs.H7993H376H4294H8577H175H4294H1104H429413Still Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.H2388H6547H3820H8085H3068H1696

The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood

14Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.H3068H559H4872H6547H3820H3515H3985H5971H797115Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water; stand by at the river bank to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.H3212H6547H1242H3318H4325H5324H2975H8193H7125H4294H2015H5175H3947H302716Say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you to say, "Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness." But until now you have not listened.'H559H3068H430H5680H7971H559H5971H7971H5647H4057H3541H808517Thus says the LORD, "By this you shall know that I am the LORD." See, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall be turned to blood.H559H3068H3045H3068H5221H4294H3027H4325H2975H2015H181818The fish in the river shall die, the river itself shall stink, and the Egyptians shall be unable to drink water from the Nile.'"H1710H2975H4191H2975H887H4714H3811H8354H4325H297519The LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over its rivers, its canals, and its ponds, and all its pools of water—so that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout the whole land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"H3068H559H4872H559H175H3947H4294H5186H3027H4325H4714H5104H2975H98H4723H4325H1818H1818H776H4714H6086H6820Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and of his officials he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the river, and all the water in the river was turned into blood,H4872H175H6213H3068H6680H7311H4294H5221H4325H2975H5869H6547H5869H5650H4325H2975H2015H181821and the fish in the river died. The river stank so that the Egyptians could not drink its water, and there was blood throughout the whole land of Egypt.H1710H2975H4191H2975H887H4714H3201H8354H4325H2975H1818H776H471422But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.H2748H4714H6213H3909H6547H3820H2388H8085H3068H169623Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.H6547H6437H935H1004H7896H3820H206324And all the Egyptians had to dig along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the river.H4714H2658H5439H2975H4325H8354H3201H8354H4325H297525Seven days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.H7651H3117H4390H310H3068H5221H2975