3. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
4. Nevertheless, Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that I may lay My hand upon Egypt and bring forth My armies and My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
5. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.”
6. So Moses and Aaron did it. Just as the Lord commanded them, so they did.
7. Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8. Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
9. “When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, ‘Show a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and throw it before Pharaoh,’ and it shall become a serpent.”
10. So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, and they did what the Lord had commanded. And Aaron threw down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
11. Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers. Then the magicians of Egypt likewise performed with their secret arts.