¹⁷ And you shall take in your hand ^(A)this staff, ^(B)with which you shall perform the signs.”

²⁰ So Moses took his wife and his ^(A)sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the ^(B)staff of God in his hand.

¹⁹ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and ^(A)extend your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their ^[a]streams, over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, so that they may become blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, both in containers of wood and in containers of stone.’”

^21 (A)Then Moses reached out with his hand over the sea; and the Lord ^[a]swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into ^(B)dry land, and ^(C)the waters were divided.

²⁶ Then the Lord said to Moses, “^(A)Reach out with your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and their horsemen.”