Exodus 7 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Exo 7:1

Then Yahweh^H3068 said^H559 to Moses^H4872, “See^H7200, I [fn]set^H5414 you as God^H430 to Pharaoh^H6547, and your brother^H251 Aaron^H175 shall be your prophet^H5030.

Exo 7:2

Exo 7:2“You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

Exo 7:3

Exo 7:3“But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart with stiffness that I may multiply My signs and My [fn]wonders in the land of Egypt.

Exo 7:4

Exo 7:4“But Pharaoh will not listen to you. And I will [fn]set My hand upon Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments.

Exo 7:5

Exo 7:5“Then the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”

Exo 7:6

Exo 7:6So Moses and Aaron did it; as Yahweh commanded them, thus they did.

Exo 7:7

Exo 7:7Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Aaron’s Staff Becomes a Serpent

(Exo 4:1–5 )

Exo 7:8

And Yahweh^H3068 spoke^H559 to Moses^H4872 and Aaron^H175, saying^H559,

Exo 7:9

Exo 7:9“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘[fn]Work a miraculous wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a [fn]serpent.’”

Exo 7:10

Exo 7:10So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as Yahweh had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and [fn]his [fn]servants, and it became a [fn]serpent.

Exo 7:11

Exo 7:11Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the [fn]magicians of Egypt, did [fn]the same with their secret arts.

Exo 7:12

Exo 7:12And each one threw down his staff, and they became [fn]serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

Exo 7:13

Exo 7:13Yet Pharaoh’s heart was [fn]hardened with strength, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

The Plague of Water Turning to Blood

Exo 7:14

Then Yahweh^H3068 said^H559 to Moses^H4872, “Pharaoh’s^H6547 heart^H3820 is [fn]hard^H3515 with firmness^H3515; he refuses^H3985 to let^H7971 the people^H5971 go^H7971.

Exo 7:15

Exo 7:15“Go to Pharaoh in the morning [fn]as he is going out to the water, and station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a serpent.

Exo 7:16

Exo 7:16“And you shall say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until now.”

Exo 7:17

Exo 7:17‘Thus says Yahweh, “By this you shall know that I am Yahweh: behold, I am about to strike [fn]the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.

Exo 7:18

Exo 7:18“And the fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will [fn]become foul, and the Egyptians will be weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’”

Exo 7:19

Exo 7:19Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their [fn]streams, and over their pools and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

Exo 7:20

So Moses^H4872 and Aaron^H175 did^H6213 thus^H3651, as Yahweh^H3068 had commanded^H6680. And he raised^H7311 up^H7311 [fn]the staff^H4294 and struck^H5221 the water^H4325 that was in the Nile^H2975, in the sight^H5869 of Pharaoh^H6547 and in the sight^H5869 of his servants^H5650, and all^H3605 the water^H4325 that was in the Nile^H2975 was turned^H2015 to blood^H1818.

Exo 7:21

Exo 7:21And the fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile [fn]became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.

Exo 7:22

Exo 7:22Yet the [fn]magicians of Egypt did [fn]the same with their secret arts; and Pharaoh’s heart was [fn]hardened with strength, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Exo 7:23