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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Exodus 7</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//exodus/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/exodus/">Exodus</a> > Exodus 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/6.htm" title="Exodus 6">◄</a> Exodus 7 <a href="../exodus/8.htm" title="Exodus 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/exodus/7.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/exodus/7.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/exodus/7.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/exodus/7.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/exodus/7.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/exodus/7.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/exodus/7.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">God Commands Moses and Aaron<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Pharaoh will not listen to you. <p class="reg"> Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.” <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh. <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Aaron’s Staff<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“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.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span>” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said. <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">The First Plague: Blood<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding;<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> he refuses to let the people go. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not listened until now. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.” <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron raised the staff<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was turned to blood. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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. <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But the magicians of Egypt did the same things by their magic arts. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Hebrew <i>tannin</i><span class="thin"> </span>; here and in verse 10, in contrast to Moses’ staff, which became a <i>nachash</i><span class="thin"> </span> in <a href="../exodus/4.htm#3">Exodus 4:3</a> and was noted again in <a href="../exodus/7.htm#15">Exodus 7:15</a><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>stiffened</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>strengthened</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 22<br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>heavy</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>stubborn</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Hebrew <i>he raised the staff</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see verse 19; some translators <i>Moses raised the staff</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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