Exodus 7:9 ““When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron,…”

Exodus 7:9

“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent. ”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.

World English Bible

“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’”

American Standard Version

When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.

Geneva Bible 1599

If Pharaoh speake vnto you, saying, Shewe a miracle for you, then thou shalt say vnto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shalbe turned into a serpent.

Darby Translation

When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Do a miracle for yourselves, — then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy staff and cast [it] before Pharaoh — it will become a serpent.

Young's Literal Translation

'When Pharaoh speaketh unto you, saying, Give for yourselves a wonder; then thou hast said unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast before Pharaoh — it becometh a monster.'

Bible in Basic English

If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to Aaron, Take your rod and put it down on the earth before Pharaoh so that it may become a snake.

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Cross references

“Shew”

Isaiah 7:11 John 2:18 John 6:30 Matthew 12:39 John 10:38

Isaiah 7:11 · BSB

“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”

John 2:18 · BSB

On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”

John 6:30 · BSB

So they asked Him, “What sign then will You perform, so that we may see it and believe You? What will You do?

Matthew 12:39 · BSB

Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

John 10:38 · BSB

But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.”

“Take”

Exodus 4:2 Exodus 4:17 Exodus 10:13 Exodus 7:10–12 Exodus 4:20 Exodus 9:23

Exodus 4:2 · BSB

And the LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.

Exodus 4:17 · BSB

But take this staff in your hand so you can perform signs with it.”

Exodus 10:13 · BSB

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

Exodus 7:10–12 · BSB

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

Exodus 4:20 · BSB

So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

Exodus 9:23 · BSB

So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

“a serpent”

Ezekiel 29:3 Psalm 74:12 Psalm 74:13

Ezekiel 29:3 · BSB

Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

Psalm 74:12 · BSB

Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.

Psalm 74:13 · BSB

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

10So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

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