7Exodus 7

1The Lord said: I am going to let your brother Aaron speak for you. He will tell your message to the king, just as a prophet speaks my message to the people.Select Exodus 7:1

2Tell Aaron everything I say to you, and he will order the king to let my people leave his country.Select Exodus 7:2

4But I will make the king so stubborn that he won't listen to you. He won't listen even when I do many terrible things to him and his nation. Then I will bring a final punishment on Egypt, and the king will let Israel's families and tribes go.Select Exodus 7:4

5When this happens, the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.Select Exodus 7:5

6Moses and Aaron obeyed the LordSelect Exodus 7:6

7and spoke to the king. At the time, Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron was 83.Select Exodus 7:7

A Stick Turns into a Snake

9The Lord said, “Moses, when the king asks you and Aaron to perform a miracle, command Aaron to throw his walking stick down in front of the king, and it will turn into a snake.”Select Exodus 7:9

10Moses and Aaron went to the king and his officials and did exactly as the Lord had commanded—Aaron threw the stick down, and it turned into a snake.Select Exodus 7:10

11Then the king called in the wise men and the magicians, who used their secret powers to do the same thing—Select Exodus 7:11

12they threw down sticks that turned into snakes. But Aaron's snake swallowed theirs.Select Exodus 7:12

13The king behaved just as the Lord had said and stubbornly refused to listen.Select Exodus 7:13

The Nile River Turns into Blood

14The Lord said to Moses: The Egyptian king stubbornly refuses to change his mind and let the people go.Select Exodus 7:14

15Tomorrow morning take the stick that turned into a snake, then wait beside the Nile River for the king.Select Exodus 7:15

16Tell him, “The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to order you to release his people, so they can worship him in the desert. But until now, you have paid no attention.Select Exodus 7:16

17“The Lord is going to do something to show you that he really is the Lord. I will strike the Nile with this stick, and the water will turn into blood.Select Exodus 7:17

18The fish will die, the river will stink, and none of you Egyptians will be able to drink the water.”Select Exodus 7:18

19Moses, then command Aaron to hold his stick over the water. And when he does, every drop of water in Egypt will turn into blood, including rivers, canals, ponds, and even the water in buckets and jars.Select Exodus 7:19

20Moses and Aaron obeyed the Lord. Aaron held out his stick, then struck the Nile, as the king and his officials watched. The river turned into blood,Select Exodus 7:20

21the fish died, and the water smelled so bad that none of the Egyptians could drink it. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.Select Exodus 7:21

22But the Egyptian magicians used their secret powers to do the same thing. The king did just as the Lord had said—he stubbornly refused to listen.Select Exodus 7:22

23Then he went back to his palace and never gave it a second thought.Select Exodus 7:23

24The Egyptians had to dig holes along the banks of the Nile for drinking water, because water from the river was unfit to drink.Select Exodus 7:24

Frogs

25Seven days after the Lord had struck the Nile,Select Exodus 7:25