Moses

Then Moshe and Aharon went and gathered together all the leaders of the people of Isra'el.

Aharon said everything ADONAI had told Moshe, who then performed the signs for the people to see.

After that, Moshe and Aharon came and said to Pharaoh, "Here is what ADONAI, the God of Isra'el, says: 'Let my people go, so that they can celebrate a festival in the desert to honor me.'"

The king of Egypt answered them, "Moshe and Aharon, what do you mean by taking the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!

As they were leaving Pharaoh, they encountered Moshe and Aharon standing by the road;

Moshe returned to ADONAI and said, "ADONAI, why have you treated this people so terribly? What has been the value of sending me?

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Now you will see what I am going to do to Pharaoh. With a mighty hand he will send them off; with force he will drive them from the land!"

God spoke to Moshe; he said to him, "I am ADONAI.

Moshe said this to the people of Isra'el. But they wouldn't listen to him, because they were so discouraged, and their slavery was so cruel.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

Moshe said to ADONAI, "Look, the people of Isra'el haven't listened to me; so how will Pharaoh listen to me, poor speaker that I am?"

But ADONAI spoke to Moshe and Aharon and gave them orders concerning both the people of Isra'el and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the people of Isra'el out of the land of Egypt.

'Amram married Yokheved his father's sister, and she bore him Aharon and Moshe. 'Amram lived to be 137 years old.

These are the Aharon and Moshe to whom ADONAI said, "Bring the people of Isra'el out of the land of Egypt, division by division,"

and who told Pharaoh king of Egypt, to let the people of Isra'el leave Egypt. These are the same Moshe and Aharon.

On the day when ADONAI spoke to Moshe in the land of Egypt,

he said, "I am ADONAI. Tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, everything I say to you."

Moshe answered ADONAI, "Look, I'm such a poor speaker that Pharaoh won't listen to me."

But ADONAI said to Moshe, "I have put you in the place of God to Pharaoh, and Aharon your brother will be your prophet.

Moshe and Aharon did exactly what ADONAI ordered them to do.

Moshe was eighty years old and Aharon eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon,

Moshe and Aharon went in to Pharaoh and did this, as ADONAI had ordered -Aharon threw down his staff in front of Pharaoh and his servants, and it turned into a snake.

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Pharaoh is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Say to Aharon, 'Take your staff, reach out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, canals, ponds and all their reservoirs, so that they can turn into blood. There will be blood throughout the whole land of Egypt, even in the wooden buckets and stone jars.'"