¹⁰ So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and so they did, just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and ^[a]his servants, and it ^(A)turned into a serpent. ¹¹ Then Pharaoh also ^(B)called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they too, the ^(C)soothsayer priests of Egypt, did the same with ^(D)their secret arts. ¹² For each one threw down his staff, and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.