Exodus 7:9
When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Show a wonder for you, then thou shall say to Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8And LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 4:2And LORD said to him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A rod.
Exodus 4:17And thou shall take this rod in thy hand, with which thou shall do the signs.
Exodus 7:10And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh. And they did so, as LORD had commanded, and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Exodus 10:13And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night, and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Isaiah 7:11Ask thee a sign of LORD thy God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
Matthew 12:39But having answered, he said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 7:9-14
Magicians of Egypt. ( b. c. 1491.) 8 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent. 10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the… Read the whole commentary →