Exodus 7:12-14

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¹²For every man cast down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. ¹³Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the Lord had said.

The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood

¹⁴^[a]Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened, he refuses to let the people go.

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Footnotes

7.14 Here begins the story of the ten plagues. Again, the narrative is composite and originally different traditions knew of different numbers of plagues. All, however, lead up to the climax of the death of the first-born. Some of the plagues correspond to natural phenomena that are known to occur, or to have occurred in the past, in Egypt.

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