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Exodus 7 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:1 - And the Lord said to Moses, See I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:2 - Say whatever I give you orders to say: and Aaron your brother will give word to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:3 - And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and wonders will be increased in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:4 - But Pharaoh will not give ear to you, and I will put my hand on Egypt, and take my armies, my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt, after great punishments.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:5 - And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand is stretched out over Egypt, and I take the children of Israel out from among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:6 - And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders, so they did.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:7 - And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.

Aaron's Rod Becomes a Serpent

(Exo 4:1–5 )
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:8 - And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:9 - If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to Aaron, Take your rod and put it down on the earth before Pharaoh so that it may become a snake.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:10 - Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the Lord had said: and Aaron put his rod down on the earth before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:11 - Then Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the wonder-workers, and they, the wonder-workers of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:12 - For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:13 - But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

Water Is Turned to Blood

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:14 - And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart is unchanged; he will not let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - Go to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the water, you will be waiting for him by the edge of the Nile, with the rod which was turned into a snake in your hand;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:16 - And say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go so that they may give me worship in the waste land; but up to now you have not given ear to his words.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17 - So the Lord says, By this you may be certain that I am the Lord; see, by the touch of this rod in my hand the waters of the Nile will be turned to blood;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - And the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and the river will send up a bad smell, and the Egyptians will not be able, for disgust, to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20 - And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water in the Nile was turned to blood;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - And the fish in the Nile came to destruction, and a bad smell went up from the river, and the Egyptians were not able to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking; and there was blood through all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:22 - And the wonder-workers of Egypt did the same with their secret arts: but Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:23 - Then Pharaoh went into his house, and did not take even this to heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - And all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile to get drinking-water, for they were not able to make use of the Nile water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:25 - And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand on the Nile.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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