GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
1 The LORD answered Moses, "I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron is your prophet.
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Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
2 Tell your brother Aaron everything I command you, and he must tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave the country.
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You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country.
3 But I will make Pharaoh stubborn. Even though I will do many miraculous signs and amazing things in Egypt,
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But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,
4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will use my power to punish Egypt severely, and I will bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt in organized family groups.
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he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites.
5 The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I use my power against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of there."
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And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.”
6 Moses and Aaron did as the LORD had commanded them.
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Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD commanded them.
7 Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83 when they talked to Pharaoh.
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Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
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