5. Then the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.
6. And Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.
7. Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
9. “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Do a miracle,’ and you say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ it will become a snake.”
10. When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the Lord had commanded them – Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.
11. Then Pharaoh also summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt by their secret arts did the same thing.
12. Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.