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1 Yahweh said to Moses: See, I appoint you as Elohim to Pharaoh; and Aaron, your brother, shall come to be your prophet.
2 You yourself shall speak all that I am instructing you while Aaron, your brother, shall speak to Pharaoh that he dismiss the sons of Israel from his land.
3 And I Myself shall harden the heart of Pharaoh and increase My signs and My miracles in the land of Egypt.
4 Though Pharaoh shall not hearken to you, yet I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring forth My hosts, My people, the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt with great judgments.
5 And all the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out My hand over Egypt and bring forth the sons of Israel from their midst.
6 So Moses and Aaron did just as Yahweh instructed them; thus they did.
7 Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying.
9 When Pharaoh is speaking to you, saying, Give your sign or miracle, then you will say to Aaron, Take your rod and fling it before Pharaoh that it may become a snake.
10 Moses and Aaron entered to Pharaoh and did so, just as Yahweh had instructed. Aaron flung his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a snake.
11 Pharaoh, however, called for the wise men and for the enchanters. And even they, the sacred scribes of Egypt, did so with their occultisms.
12 Each man flung his rod, and they became snakes. Then Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
13 Yet the heart of Pharaoh was steadfast, and he did not hearken to them, just as Yahweh had spoken.
14 Then Yahweh said to Moses: Gloried is the heart of Pharaoh; he has refused to dismiss the people.
15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he shall be going forth to the waters, so you will station yourself to meet him on the shore of the waterway. And the rod which was turned into a serpent shall you take in your hand.