⁷ Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet,^(A) and he will pray for you^(B) and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.”^(C)

The Plague of Blood

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding;^(A) he refuses to let the people go.

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^(A) me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened.^(B)