Exodus 7:15-17

New International Version

¹⁵ Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river.^(A) Confront him on the bank of the Nile,^(B) and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake. ¹⁶ Then say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship^(C) me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened.^{(D) 17} This is what the Lord says: By this you will know that I am the Lord:^(E) With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood.^(F)