Exodus 7:9

World English Bible (2000)

"When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"

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  • Isa 7:11 : 11 "Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above."
  • John 2:18 : 18 The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
  • John 6:30 : 30 They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?
  • Exod 4:2 : 2 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."
  • Exod 4:17 : 17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."
  • Exod 4:20 : 20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.
  • Exod 7:10-12 : 10 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments. 12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
  • Exod 9:23 : 23 Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 10:13 : 13 Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
  • Ps 74:12-13 : 12 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
  • John 10:38 : 38 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
  • Ezek 29:3 : 3 Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.'
  • Matt 12:39 : 39 But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

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  • Exod 7:10-13
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    90%

    10 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

    11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.

    12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

    13 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

  • Exod 7:15-17
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    84%

    15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, 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.

    16 You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:" and behold, until now you haven't listened.

    17 Thus says Yahweh, "In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

  • Exod 7:6-8
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    6 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.

    7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

    8 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Exod 4:2-4
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    2 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."

    3 He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

    4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

  • Exod 7:19-20
    2 verses
    79%

    19 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"

    20 Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and 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.

  • Exod 4:17
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    17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

  • Exod 7:1-4
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    1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

    2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

    3 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

    4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

  • Exod 8:5-7
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    5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'"

    6 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

    7 The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 9:8
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    8 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.

  • Exod 8:16
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    16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.'"

  • Num 20:9
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    9 Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.

  • Exod 4:30
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    30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

  • Exod 4:9
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    9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."

  • Exod 11:9
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    9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."

  • Exod 7:22
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    22 The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

  • Exod 9:23
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    23 Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 14:16
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    16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.

  • Num 17:9-10
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    9 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

    10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die."

  • Exod 8:19
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    19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God:" and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

  • Exod 17:5
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    5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.

  • Exod 8:9
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    9 Moses said to Pharaoh, "I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only."

  • Num 21:8-9
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    70%

    8 Yahweh said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

    9 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.

  • Exod 4:21
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    21 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

  • Deut 34:11
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    11 in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

  • Num 20:7
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    7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,