Exodus chapter 7

After reading chapter 7:

*God tells Moses to tell Pharoah whatever God tells him. Moses balks. God says Moses will be like God and Aaron will be his messenger, telling Pharoah everything that God tells Moses. However, God will harden Pharoah's heart and no matter what miraculous signs occur, he will not listen. But God will teach the Egyptians a hard lesson, and will bring the Israelites out of Egypt. At this time, Moses was 80 and Aaron was 83, both well past retirement age. Notice that Moses was the younger brother.

*Moses and Aaron went to Pharoah and magically turned the staff into a snake. Pharoah's wise men were able to do the same thing with their staffs, but Aaron's snake swallowed up their snakes. Pharoah still wouldn't listen to them.

*Then God told Moses to take the staff to the River Nile when Pharoah went to the water. He was to tell Pharoah to let the Israelites go to worship Yahweh in the desert. Then, as proof of God, when Moses stretched his staff out over the water, all the water in Egypt would turn to blood and all the fish would die. No Egyptians would be able to drink the water. It happened just that way. However, Pharoah's magicians were able to perform the same trick. So, he wouldn't let the Israelites go.