Exodus 7:8-13

Aaron’s Staff Becomes a Serpent

8 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘¹^aWork a miraculous wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘^bTake your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a ²serpent.’” 10 So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as Yahweh had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and ¹his ²servants, and it ^abecame a ³serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh also ^acalled for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the ¹^bmagicians of Egypt, did ²the same with ^ctheir secret arts. 12 And each one threw down his staff, and they became ¹serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Yet ^aPharaoh’s heart was ¹hardened with strength, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.