Exodus 7:8-13
Aaron’s Staff Becomes a Serpent
8And 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.’” 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 1his 2servants, and it abecame a 3serpent. 11Then 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. 12And each one threw down his staff, and they became 1serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13Yet aPharaoh’s heart was 1hardened with strength, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.