This translation is from the New American Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided in blue immediately below the scriptural text. A collection of scriptures dealing with similar principles is hyperlinked at the end of this post.
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Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land. 3But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
4When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”6So Moses and Aaron did it; as the Lord commanded them, thus they did. 7Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 9“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Work a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’” 10So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. 11Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts. 12For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
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speak = דָּבַר = dabar Blue Letter Bible to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing; to speak with one another, talk; answer; pronounce; teach; use (entreaties), utter; to lead, to guide; to direct a people; admonish; speak kindly, console; speak friendly, peaceably with anyone; to announce welfare
all = כֹּל = kol Blue Letter Bible the whole; any, each, every, anything; totality, everything, of all kinds, every sort
command = צָוָה = ṣāvâ Blue Letter Bible command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order; to constitute, enjoin; appoint; put, (set) in order; delegate
harden = קָשָׁה = qashah Blue Letter Bible to be hard, be severe, be fierce, be harsh; to make difficult, make difficulty; to make severe, make burdensome; make stiff, make stubborn; obstinacy; to show stubbornness; to be dense, i.e. tough or severe; be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous; be sore
sign = אוֹת = ‘ôṯ Blue Letter Bible sign, signal; a distinguishing mark; banner; remembrance; miraculous sign; omen; warning; portent; token; attestation; ensign, standard; miracle; proof, evidence; beacon; monument; changes of weather, heavens, times; signal; sign of something future; proof, argument; pledge, assurance; pledges or attestations of divine presence & interposition
wonders = מוֹפֵת = môp̄ēṯ Blue Letter Bible wonder, sign, miracle, portent; he sense of conspicuousness; token or omen; prodigy; a beautiful or splendid deed
know =יָדַע= yāḏaʿ Blue Letter Bible perceive and see, find out and discern; discriminate, distinguish; know by experience; recognize; be acquainted with; know (a person carnally); know how, be skillful in; have knowledge, be wise; made known, be or become known, be revealed; be instructed; privy to; seeing; observe with the eyes; be aware of; get to know, discover; turn the mind to anything, care about, see about
the Lord = יְהֹוָה = Yᵊhōvâ Blue Letter Bible Yahweh; I am he who I am, I am who I am; he who is essentially unnameable, inexplicable; the God of the patriarchs; the existing One; the proper name of the one true God; the self-Existent or Eternal; the one bringing into being, life-giver; giver of existence, creator; performer of his promises; he who causes to fall, rain or lightning; he one who is: i.e. the absolute and unchangeable one; the existing, ever living, as self-consistent and unchangeable; or the one ever coming into manifestation as the God of redemption; the supreme God; God eternal and immutable
stretch out = נָטָה = natah Blue Letter Bible to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow; to turn aside, incline, decline, bend down; hold out; incline, influence; outstretched; wrest, cause to yield; spread oneself; seduce
hand = יָד = yāḏ Blue Letter Bible hand; strength, power (fig.); means, direction; force; ministry
the Lord = יְהֹוָה = Yᵊhōvâ Blue Letter Bible Yahweh; I am he who I am, I am who I am; he who is essentially unnameable, inexplicable; the God of the patriarchs; the existing One; the proper name of the one true God; the self-Existent or Eternal; the one bringing into being, life-giver; giver of existence, creator; performer of his promises; he who causes to fall, rain or lightning; he one who is: i.e. the absolute and unchangeable one; the existing, ever living, as self-consistent and unchangeable; or the one ever coming into manifestation as the God of redemption; the supreme God; God eternal and immutable
commanded = צָוָה = ṣāvâ Blue Letter Bible command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order; to constitute, enjoin; appoint; put, (set) in order; delegate
did = עָשָׂה = ʿāśâ Blue Letter Bible to do, fashion, accomplish, make; work, produce; to deal (with); to act, act with effect, effect; attend to, put in order; to observe, celebrate;advance; follow, fulfill; be industrious, labor; yield; produce by labor
swallowed = בָּלַע = bālaʿ Blue Letter Bible to swallow down, swallow up, engulf, eat up; to be ended; generally, to destroy; devour, eat up; consume; extirpate, take away altogether
hardened = חָזַק = ḥāzaq Blue Letter Bible to strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute; to make strong; to restore to strength, give strength; sustain, encourage; make bold; to repair; to have or take or keep hold of, retain, hold up, sustain, support; to hold, contain; to put forth strength, use one’s strength; to withstand; to hold strongly with; to strengthen oneself; causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify; recovery from illness; courageous, confident;devote oneself to; to be urgent, pressing; to tie fast, bind
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Wisdom Principles--Rely on God, not Material Power or Wealth
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