Quotes about Exodus
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
- Exodus 7:7
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
- Exodus 7:8
“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”
- Exodus 7:9
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.
- Exodus 7:10
Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.
- Exodus 7:12
Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
- Exodus 7:13
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.
- Exodus 7:14
Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
- Exodus 7:15
This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD. Behold, with the staff in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will turn to blood.
- Exodus 7:17
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
- Exodus 7:18
The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 7:21
Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.
- Exodus 7:23