출애굽기(Exodus) 7장

 

 

출애굽기(Exodus) 7장

 

1. Then the LORD said to Moses, "See, I

have made you like God to Pharaoh, and

your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

 

2. You are to say everything I command

you, and your brother Aaron is to tell

Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of

his country.

 

3. But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and

though I multiply my miraculous signs

and wonders in Egypt,

 

4. he will not listen to you. Then I will lay

my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts

of judgment I will bring out my divisions,

my people the Israelites.

 

5. And the Egyptians will know that I am

the LORD when I stretch out my hand

against Egypt and bring the Israelites

out of it."

 

6. Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD

commanded them.

 

7. Moses was eighty years old and Aaron

eighty-three when they spoke to

Pharaoh.

 

8. The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

 

9. "When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a

miracle,' then say to Aaron, 'Take your

staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,'

and it will become a snake."

 

10. So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh

and did just as the LORD commanded.

Aaron threw his staff down in front of

Pharaoh and his officials, and it became

a snake.

 

11. Pharaoh then summoned wise men

and sorcerers, and the Egyptian

magicians also did the same things

by their secret arts:

 

12. Each one threw down his staff and it

became a snake. But Aaron's staff

swallowed up their staffs.

 

13. Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and

he would not listen to them, just as the

LORD had said.

 

14. Then the LORD said to Moses,

"Pharaoh's heart is unyielding; he

refuses to let the people go.

 

 

15. Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he

goes out to the water. Wait on the bank

of the Nile to meet him, and take in

your habd the staff that was changed

into a snake.

 

16. Then say to him, 'The LORD, the God

of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to

you: Let my people go, so that they

may worship me in the desert. But

until now you have not listened.

 

17. This is what the LORD says: By this

you will know that I am the LORD :

With the staff that is in my hand I

will strike the water of the Nile, and

it will be changed into blood.

 

18. The fish in the Nile will die, and the

river will stink; the Egyptians will not

be able to drink its water.'"

 

19. The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron,

'Take your staff and stretch out your

hand over the waters of Egypt- -over

the streams and canals, over the ponds

and all the reservoirs'-and they will turn

to blood. Blood will be everywhere in

Egypt, even in the wooden buckets and

stone jars."

 

20. Moses and Aaron did just as the

LORD had commanded. He raised his

staff in the presence of Pharaoh and

his officials and struck the water of

the Nile, and all the water was

changed into blood.

 

21. The fish in the Nile died, and the river

smelled so bad that the Egyptians could

not drink its water. Blood was

everywhere in Egypt.

 

22. But the Egyptian magicians did the

same things by their secret arts, and

Pharaoh's heart became hard; he

would not listen to Moses and Aaron,

just as the LORD had said.

 

23. Instead, he turned and went into his

palace, and did not take even this to

heart.

 

24. And all the Egyptians dug along the

Nile to get drinking water, because they

could not drink the water of the river.

 

25. Seven days passed after the LORD

struck the Nile.