This edition follows the Hebrew versification; the traditional number is given in brackets.
1Yahweh said to Moses, “See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. 2You will say everything I command you, and Aaron your brother will speak it to Pharaoh, and he will let the Israelites go out of his land. 3But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my companies, my people the Israelites, out of the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment. 5Then the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.” 6Moses and Aaron did just as Yahweh commanded them. 7Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh. 8Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, 9“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a wonder,’ you will say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh’ — and it will become a serpent.” 10So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as Yahweh had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. 11Then Pharaoh in turn summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt also did the same thing by their secret arts. 12Each man threw down his staff, and they became serpents, but Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13Yet Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as Yahweh had said.
The First Plague: Blood
14Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. 15Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he goes out to the water. Stand and wait for him on the bank of the river, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a snake. 16Tell him: Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to say to you, ‘Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.’ But until now you have not listened. 17This is what Yahweh says: By this you will know that I am Yahweh. I will strike the water of the river with the staff in my hand, and it will turn to blood. 18The fish in the river will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will find it impossible to drink water from it.” 19Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt — over their streams, their canals, their ponds, and every pool of water — and they will become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and stone.” 20Moses and Aaron did just as Yahweh commanded. He raised the staff and struck the water of the river before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water in the river turned to blood. 21The fish in the river died, and the river stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink its water; there was blood throughout the land of Egypt. 22But the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts, and Pharaoh’s heart remained hard; he did not listen to them, just as Yahweh had said. 23Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart. 24All the Egyptians dug along the riverbank for water to drink, since they could not drink the water of the river. 25Seven full days passed after Yahweh struck the river.
The Second Plague: Frogs
26[8:1]Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him: This is what Yahweh says: Let my people go, that they may serve me. 27[8:2]If you refuse to let them go, I will strike your whole territory with frogs. 28[8:3]The river will swarm with frogs; they will come up into your house, into your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your servants and among your people, into your ovens and your kneading bowls. 29[8:4]The frogs will come up on you, on your people, and on all your servants.”
