Exodus 7:9
“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, Give a wonder for yourselves; then you have said to Aaron, Take your rod and cast [it] before Pharaoh—it becomes a dragon.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 4:2And YHWH says to him, “What [is] this in your hand?” And he says, “A rod”;
Exodus 4:17and you take this rod in your hand, with which you do the signs.”
Exodus 7:10And Moses goes in—Aaron also—to Pharaoh, and they do so as YHWH has commanded; and Aaron casts his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it becomes a dragon.
Exodus 10:13And Moses stretches out his rod against the land of Egypt, and YHWH has led an east wind over the land all that day, and all the night; the morning has been, and the east wind has lifted up the locust.
Isaiah 7:11“Ask for a sign from your God YHWH, || Make the request deep, or make [it] high upwards.”
Matthew 12:39And He answering said to them, “A generation, evil and adulterous, seeks a sign, and a sign will not 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 →