2. Tell Aaron everything I say to you, and he will order the king to let my people leave his country.
5. When this happens, the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.
6. Moses and Aaron obeyed the Lord
7. and spoke to the king. At the time, Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three.
10. Moses and Aaron went to the king and his officials and did exactly as the Lord had commanded—Aaron threw the stick down, and it turned into a snake.
11. Then the king called in the wise men and the magicians, who used their secret powers to do the same thing—
12. they threw down sticks that turned into snakes. But Aaron's snake swallowed theirs.
13. The king behaved just as the Lord had said and stubbornly refused to listen.