Exodus 6:28-7:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

Moses and Aaron Obey God’s Commands

²⁸ On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, ²⁹ the Lord said to Moses, “I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am speaking to you.”^{(A) 30} But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I am a poor speaker,^[a] why should Pharaoh listen to me?”^(B)

7 The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.^{(C) 2} You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.^{(D) 3} But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.^{(E) 4} When Pharaoh does not listen to you, I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring my people the Israelites, company by company, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.^{(F) 5} The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”^{(G) 6} Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.^{(H) 7} Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.^(I)