The First Plague: Waters Become Blood

¹⁴ So the Lord said to Moses: ^(A)“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to let the people go.

^22 (A)Then the magicians of Egypt did ^(B)so with their ^[a]enchantments; and Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, ^(C)as the Lord had said.

³⁴ And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet more; and he hardened his heart, he and his servants.

⁶ Why then do you harden your hearts ^(A)as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He did mighty things among them, ^(B)did they not let the people go, that they might depart?