7:1 So Yahweh said to Moses, “See, I have made you a god¹ to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.² 7:2 You will speak³ all that I command you;⁴ and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh that he may release⁵ the Israelites from his land. 7:3 But I will harden⁶ Pharaoh’s heart. And although I will multiply⁷ my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt, 7:4 Pharaoh will not listen to you.⁸ And I will lay my hand⁹ on Egypt and bring out my hosts,¹⁰ my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great judgments. 7:5 Then¹¹ the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch out my hand¹² over Egypt, and bring out the Israelites from among them.

7:6 And Moses and Aaron did just as Yahweh commanded them; so they did. 7:7 Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

7:8 Yahweh said¹³ to Moses and Aaron,¹⁴ 7:9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Do¹⁵ a miracle,’ then you will say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and cast in before Pharaoh, and it will become¹⁶ a serpent.” 7:10 When¹⁷ Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, they did so, just as Yahweh had commanded them—Aaron cast¹⁸ his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants and it became a serpent.¹⁹ 7:11 Then Pharaoh also summoned wise men and sorcerers,²⁰ and the magicians²¹ of Egypt by their secret arts²² did the same thing. 7:12 Each man²³ cast down his staff, and they became serpents. And the staff of Aaron swallowed up their staffs. 7:13 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened,²⁴ and he did not listen to them, just as Yahweh had said.

7:14 And Yahweh said to Moses, “The heart of Pharaoh is hardened;²⁶ he refuses to release²⁷ the people. 7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning when²⁸ he goes out to the water, and position yourself²⁹ to meet him by the edge of the Nile;³⁰ and take³¹ in your hand the rod³² which you turned into a snake. 7:16 And you will say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say,³³ ‘Release my people, that they may serve me³⁴ in the desert!’ But up til now³⁵ you have not complied. 7:17 Thus says Yahweh, ‘In this you will know that I am Yahweh: I am going to strike³⁶ the water of the Nile with the rod that is in my hand, and it will be turned into blood.³⁷ 7:18 And fish³⁸ in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable³⁹ to drink the water of the Nile.” 7:19 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers and over their canals,⁴⁰ and over their ponds and over all their reservoirs,⁴¹ that they may become⁴² blood.’ And blood will be throughout⁴³ the land of Egypt, even in the wooden vessels and in the stone vessels.” 7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so⁴⁴ as Yahweh had commanded. Moses raised⁴⁵ the rod⁴⁶ and struck the water of the Nile before the eyes of⁴⁷ Pharaoh and before the eyes of his servants;⁴⁸ and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.⁴⁹ 7:21 When the fish⁵⁰ that were in the Nile died, the Nile began⁵¹ to stink, so that the Egyptians were not able to drink water from the Nile. Blood⁵² was throughout all the land of Egypt. 7:22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same⁵³ by their secret arts, and so⁵⁴ the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not listen to them—just as Yahweh had said. 7:23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house. He did not even take this to heart.⁵⁵ 7:24 All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink,⁵⁶ because they were not able to drink from the water of the Nile.

7:25 Seven full days passed¹ after Yahweh struck² the Nile.