Exodus · Berean Standard Bible
Exodus 7 Berean Standard Bible
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1 The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
1 Y JEHOVÁ dijo á Moisés: Mira, yo te he constituído dios para Faraón, y tu hermano Aarón será tu profeta.
2 You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.
2 Tú dirás todas las cosas que yo te mandaré, y Aarón tu hermano hablará á Faraón, para que deje ir de su tierra á los hijos de Israel.
3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
3 Y yo endureceré el corazón de Faraón, y multiplicaré en la tierra de Egipto mis señales y mis maravillas.
4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
4 Y Faraón no os oirá; mas yo pondré mi mano sobre Egipto, y sacaré á mis ejércitos, mi pueblo, los hijos de Israel, de la tierra de Egipto, con grandes juicios.
5 And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”
5 Y sabrán los Egipcios que yo soy Jehová, cuando extenderé mi mano sobre Egipto, y sacaré los hijos de Israel de en medio de ellos.
6 So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.
6 E hizo Moisés y Aarón como Jehová les mandó: hiciéronlo así.
7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
7 Y era Moisés de edad de ochenta años, y Aarón de edad de ochenta y tres, cuando hablaron á Faraón.
8 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
8 Y habló Jehová á Moisés y á Aarón, diciendo:
9 “When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”
9 Si Faraón os respondiere diciendo, Mostrad milagro; dirás á Aarón: Toma tu vara, y échala delante de Faraón, para que se torne culebra.
10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.
10 Vinieron, pues, Moisés y Aarón á Faraón, é hicieron como Jehová lo había mandado: y echó Aarón su vara delante de Faraón y de sus siervos, y tornóse culebra.
11 But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.
11 Entonces llamó también Faraón sabios y encantadores; é hicieron también lo mismo los encantadores de Egipto con sus encantamientos;
12 Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.
12 Pues echó cada uno su vara, las cuales se volvieron culebras: mas la vara de Aarón devoró las varas de ellos.
13 Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
13 Y el corazón de Faraón se endureció, y no los escuchó; como Jehová lo había dicho.
14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.
14 Entonces Jehová dijo á Moisés: El corazón de Faraón está agravado, que no quiere dejar ir al pueblo.
15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
15 Ve por la mañana á Faraón, he aquí que él sale á las aguas; y tú ponte á la orilla del río delante de él, y toma en tu mano la vara que se volvió culebra,
16 Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not listened until now.
16 Y dile: Jehová el Dios de los Hebreos me ha enviado á ti, diciendo: Deja ir á mi pueblo, para que me sirvan en el desierto; y he aquí que hasta ahora no has querido oir.
17 This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD. Behold, with the staff in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will turn to blood.
17 Así ha dicho Jehová: En esto conocerás que yo soy Jehová: he aquí, yo heriré con la vara que tengo en mi mano el agua que está en el río, y se convertirá en sangre:
18 The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
18 Y los peces que hay en el río morirán, y hederá el río, y tendrán asco los Egipcios de beber el agua del río.
19 And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.”
19 Y Jehová dijo á Moisés: Di á Aarón: Toma tu vara, y extiende tu mano sobre las aguas de Egipto, sobre sus ríos, sobre sus arroyos y sobre sus estanques, y sobre todos sus depósitos de aguas, para que se conviertan en sangre, y haya sangre por toda la región de Egipto, así en los vasos de madera como en los de piedra.
20 Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron raised the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was turned to blood.
20 Y Moisés y Aarón hicieron como Jehová lo mandó; y alzando la vara hirió las aguas que había en el río, en presencia de Faraón y de sus siervos; y todas las aguas que había en el río se convirtieron en sangre.
21 The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
21 Asimismo los peces que había en el río murieron; y el río se corrompió, que los Egipcios no podían beber de él: y hubo sangre por toda la tierra de Egipto.
22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same things by their magic arts. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
22 Y los encantadores de Egipto hicieron lo mismo con sus encantamientos: y el corazón de Faraón se endureció, y no los escuchó; como Jehová lo había dicho.
23 Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.
23 Y tornando Faraón volvióse á su casa, y no puso su corazón aun en esto.
24 So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.
24 Y en todo Egipto hicieron pozos alrededor del río para beber, porque no podían beber de las aguas del río.
25 And seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.
25 Y cumpliéronse siete días después que Jehová hirió el río.
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People
Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 4:15–16; Psalm 82:6; John 10:35–36; Jeremiah 1:10; 1 Kings 17:23
- 2 Exodus 4:15; Ezekiel 3:10; Exodus 6:29; Jeremiah 1:7; Deuteronomy 4:2
- 3 Exodus 4:21; Exodus 11:9; Acts 7:36; Psalm 105:27–36; Psalm 135:9
- 4 Exodus 6:6; Exodus 11:9; Exodus 12:51; Lamentations 3:3; Exodus 10:1
- 5 Exodus 14:18; Exodus 7:17; Exodus 8:22; Exodus 14:4; Exodus 3:20
- 6 Exodus 7:2; Exodus 7:10; Genesis 6:22; Psalm 119:4; John 15:14
- 7 Deuteronomy 34:7; Acts 7:30; Acts 7:23; Deuteronomy 31:2; Deuteronomy 29:5
- 9 Exodus 4:2; Isaiah 7:11; John 2:18; John 6:30; Exodus 4:17
- 10 Exodus 4:3; Mark 16:18; Luke 10:19; Amos 9:3
- 11 Exodus 7:22; 2 Timothy 3:8; Exodus 8:18; Exodus 8:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:9
- 12 1 John 4:4; Exodus 8:18–19; Exodus 9:11; Acts 13:8–11; Acts 8:9–13
- 13 Exodus 4:21; Exodus 8:15; Zechariah 7:11–12; Exodus 10:27; Hebrews 3:13
- 14 Exodus 10:20; Exodus 10:1; Exodus 10:27; Exodus 8:15; Exodus 9:2
- 15 Exodus 8:20; Exodus 7:10; Exodus 2:5; Ezekiel 29:3; Exodus 4:2–4
- 16 Exodus 3:18; Exodus 9:1; Exodus 9:13; Exodus 5:1–3; Exodus 3:12
- 17 Exodus 4:9; Exodus 5:2; Exodus 7:5; Ezekiel 39:28; Ezekiel 38:23
- 18 Exodus 7:24; Exodus 7:21; Numbers 21:5; Numbers 11:20
- 19 Exodus 14:21; Exodus 14:26; Exodus 10:21; Exodus 8:16; Exodus 8:5–6
- 20 Psalm 78:44; Psalm 105:29; John 2:9–11; Exodus 17:5–6; Exodus 7:17–18
- 21 Exodus 7:18; Revelation 8:9
- 22 Exodus 7:11; 2 Timothy 3:8; Exodus 8:7–8; Jeremiah 27:18
- 23 Psalm 62:10; Ezekiel 40:4; Habakkuk 1:5; Proverbs 22:17; Jeremiah 36:24
- 25 2 Samuel 24:13; Exodus 10:23; Exodus 8:9–10
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