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What does Exodus 7:8 mean?

"Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,"

— Exodus 7:8 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.”

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Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.

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Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

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Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

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“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.’”

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Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

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Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.

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