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So the Lord said to Moses: "See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
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You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land.
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And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
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But 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.
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And 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."
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Then Moses and Aaron did so; just as the Lord commanded them, so they did.
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And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
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Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
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"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.' "