1. And Yahweh said to Moses, “See, I have made you as a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.
2. You will speak all that I will command you, and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, and he will release the Israelites from his land.
3. And I myself will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will make my signs and my wonders numerous in the land of Egypt.
4. And Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will put my hand into Egypt and bring out my divisions, my people, the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great punishments.
5. And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from their midst.”
6. And Moses and Aaron did it; as Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
7. (And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.)
8. And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
9. “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Do a wonder for yourselves,’ you will say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.’ ”
10. And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. And Aaron threw his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a snake.
11. And Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did likewise with their secret arts.