² The Lord asked him, ‘What is that in your hand? ’

‘A staff,’ he replied.

³ ‘Throw it on the ground,’ he said. So Moses threw it on the ground, it became a snake, and he ran from it.

¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw there was relief, he hardened his heart^(A) and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

The Eighth Plague: Locusts

10 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may do these miraculous signs of mine among them,^[a](A)

²⁰ But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart,^(A) and he did not let the Israelites go.

²⁷ But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart,^(A) and he was unwilling to let them go.