1 ^tAnd the Lord said to Moses, “See, ^uI have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. 3 ^vBut ^wI will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my ^xsigns and ^ywonders in the land of Egypt, 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my ^zhosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of ^ajudgment. 5 ^bThe Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.” 6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.