Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh

Exodus 7

1 So the LORD said to Moses: "See, I have made you a as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be b your prophet. 2 "You c shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land. 3 "And d I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and e multiply My f signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 "But g Pharaoh will not heed you, so h that I may lay My hand on Egypt and bring My 1 armies and My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt i by great judgments. 5 "And the Egyptians j shall know that I am the LORD, when I k stretch out My hand on Egypt and l bring out the children of Israel from among them." 6 Then Moses and Aaron m did so; just as the LORD commanded them, so they did. 7 And Moses was n eighty years old and o Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

8 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 9 "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, p 'Show a miracle for yourselves,' then you shall say to Aaron, q 'Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.' " 10 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just r as the LORD commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it s became a serpent. 11 But Pharaoh also t called the wise men and u the 2 sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also v did in like manner with their 3 enchantments. 12 For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. 13 And Pharaoh's heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, as the LORD had said.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 4:16
    So he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.
    Jeremiah 1:10
    See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 4:15
    Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.
    Exodus 4:16
    So he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 4:15
    Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.
    Deuteronomy 18:18
    I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 4:21
    And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
    Exodus 9:12
    But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh; and he did not heed them, just as the LORD had spoken to Moses.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 11:9
    But the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not heed you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
    Acts 7:36
    He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 4:7
    And He said, "Put your hand in your bosom again." So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and behold, it was restored like his other flesh.
    Deuteronomy 4:34
    Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 3:19
    But I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not even by a mighty hand.
    Exodus 3:20
    So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go.
    Exodus 10:1
    Now the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I may show these signs of Mine before him.
    Exodus 11:9
    But the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not heed you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 9:14
    For at this time I will send all My plagues to your very heart, and on your servants and on your people, that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 6:6
    Therefore say to the children of Israel: 'I am the LORD; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
    Exodus 12:12
    For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
  10. Cross References
    Exodus 7:17
    Thus says the LORD: "By this you shall know that I am the LORD. Behold, I will strike the waters which are in the river with the rod that is in my hand, and they shall be turned to blood.
    Exodus 8:22
    And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the land.
    Exodus 14:4
    Then I will harden Pharaoh's heart, so that he will pursue them; and I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD." And they did so.
    Exodus 14:18
    "Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gained honor for Myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."
    Psalms 9:16
    The LORD is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 9:15
    Now if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 3:20
    So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go.
    Exodus 6:6
    Therefore say to the children of Israel: 'I am the LORD; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
    Exodus 12:51
    And it came to pass, on that very same day, that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.
  13. Cross References
    Exodus 7:2
    You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land.
  14. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:5
    And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.
    Deuteronomy 31:2
    And he said to them: "I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I can no longer go out and come in. Also the LORD has said to me, 'You shall not cross over this Jordan.
    Deuteronomy 34:7
    Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.
    Acts 7:23
    Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
    Acts 7:30
    And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.
  15. Cross References
    Numbers 33:39
    Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
  16. Cross References
    Exodus 10:1
    Now the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I may show these signs of Mine before him.
    Isaiah 7:11
    "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above."
    John 2:18
    So the Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?
    John 6:30
    Therefore they said to Him, "What sign will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do?
  17. Cross References
    Exodus 4:2
    So the LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod.
    Exodus 4:3
    And He said, "Cast it on the ground." So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.
    Exodus 4:17
    "And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."
  18. Cross References
    Exodus 7:9
    "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Show a miracle for yourselves,' then you shall say to Aaron, 'Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.'"
  19. Cross References
    Exodus 4:3
    And He said, "Cast it on the ground." So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.
  20. Cross References
    Genesis 41:8
    Now it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.
  21. Cross References
    Daniel 2:2
    Then the king gave the command to call the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
    2 Timothy 3:8
    Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith.
  22. Cross References
    Exodus 7:22
    Then the magicians of Egypt did so with their e...
    Exodus 8:7
    And the magicians did so with their enchantment...
    Exodus 8:18
    Now the magicians so worked with their enchantm...
    2 Timothy 3:9
    But they will progress no further, for their fo...
    Revelation 13:13
    He performs great signs, so that he even makes ...
    Revelation 13:14
    And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by...
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