Exodus 7:8-13 (NASB)
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Exodus 7:8
Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
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Exodus 7:9
“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Work a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”
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Exodus 7:10
So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as the LORD had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.
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Exodus 7:11
Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.
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Exodus 7:12
For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
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Exodus 7:13
Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.