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1So the Lord said to Moses: “See, I have made you ⚓as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be ⚓your prophet.
2You ⚓shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land.
3And ⚓I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and ⚓multiply My ⚓signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
4But ⚓Pharaoh will not heed you, so ⚓that I may lay My hand on Egypt and bring My armies and My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt ⚓by great judgments.
5And the Egyptians ⚓shall know that I am the Lord, when I ⚓stretch out My hand on Egypt and ⚓bring out the children of Israel from among them.”
6Then Moses and Aaron ⚓did so; just as the Lord commanded them, so they did.
7And Moses was⚓eighty years old and ⚓Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Aaron’s Miraculous Rod
8Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
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.’ ”
10So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just ⚓as the Lord commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it ⚓became a serpent.
11But Pharaoh also ⚓called the wise men and ⚓the sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also ⚓did in like manner with their enchantments.
12For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
13And Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, as the Lord had said.
The First Plague: Waters Become Blood
14So the Lord said to Moses: ⚓“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to let the people go.
15Go to Pharaoh in the morning, when he goes out to the ⚓water, and you shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him; and ⚓the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.
16And you shall say to him, ⚓‘The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, ⚓that they may serve Me in the wilderness”; but indeed, until now you would not hear!
17Thus 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.
18And the fish that are in the river shall die, the river shall stink, and the Egyptians will ⚓loathe to drink the water of the river.” ’ ”
19Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and ⚓stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, over their rivers, over their ponds, and over all their pools of water, that they may become blood. And there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in buckets of wood and pitchers of stone.’ ”
20And Moses and Aaron did so, just as the Lord commanded. So he ⚓lifted up the rod and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants. And all the ⚓waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
21The fish that were in the river died, the river stank, and the Egyptians ⚓could not drink the water of the river. So there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
22⚓Then the magicians of Egypt did ⚓so with their enchantments; and Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, ⚓as the Lord had said.
23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house. Neither was his heart moved by this.
24So all the Egyptians dug all around the river for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the river.
25And seven days passed after the Lord had struck the river.
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1耶和華對摩西說：「我使你在法老面前像上帝一樣，你的哥哥亞倫是你的代言人⚓。
2凡我所吩咐你的，你都要說。你的哥哥亞倫要對法老說，讓以色列人離開他的地。
3我要使法老的心固執，我也要在埃及地多行神蹟奇事。
4法老必不聽從你們，因此我要伸手嚴厲地懲罰埃及，把我的軍隊，就是我的百姓以色列人從埃及地領出來。
5我伸手攻擊埃及，把以色列人從他們中間領出來的時候，埃及人就知道我是耶和華。」
6摩西和亞倫就去做；他們照耶和華吩咐的去做了。
7摩西和亞倫與法老說話的時候，摩西八十歲，亞倫八十三歲。
亞倫的杖
8耶和華對摩西和亞倫說：
9「法老若吩咐你們說：『你們行一件奇事吧！』你就對亞倫說：『把杖丟在法老面前！杖會變成蛇。』」
10摩西和亞倫到法老那裏去，照耶和華所吩咐的去做。亞倫把杖丟在法老和他臣僕面前，杖就變成蛇。
11法老也召了智慧人和行邪術的人來，這些埃及術士也用邪術照樣做。
12他們各人丟下自己的杖，杖就變成蛇；但亞倫的杖吞了他們的杖。
13法老心裏剛硬，不聽摩西和亞倫，正如耶和華所說的。
第一災：水變血
14耶和華對摩西說：「法老心硬，不肯放百姓走。
15明天早晨你要到法老那裏去，看哪，他出來往水邊去，你要到尼羅河邊去迎見他，手裏拿着那根變過蛇的杖。
16你要對他說：『耶和華－希伯來人的上帝差派我到你這裏，說：放我的百姓走，到曠野事奉我。看哪，到如今你還是不聽。
17耶和華如此說：看哪，我要用我手裏的杖擊打尼羅河中的水，水就變成血；這樣，你就知道我是耶和華。
18河裏的魚必死，河也要發臭，埃及人就厭惡喝這河裏的水。』」
19耶和華對摩西說：「你要對亞倫說：『拿你的杖，伸出你的手在埃及所有的水上，在他們的江、河、池塘，所有水聚集的地方上，叫水變成血。在埃及全地，無論在木器中，石器中，都必有血。』」
20摩西和亞倫就照耶和華所吩咐的去做。亞倫在法老和他臣僕眼前舉杖擊打尼羅河裏的水，河裏的水都變成血了。
21河裏的魚死了，河也臭了，埃及人就不能喝這河裏的水；埃及遍地都有了血。
22但是，埃及的術士也用邪術照樣做了；法老心裏剛硬，不聽摩西和亞倫，正如耶和華所說的。
23法老轉身回宮去，並不把這事放在心上。
24所有的埃及人都沿着尼羅河邊挖掘，要找水喝，因為他們不能喝河裏的水。
25耶和華擊打尼羅河後，過了七天。