The story of Aaron casting down his staff in front of Pharaoh is one of my favorite tales from the Bible. Not only is it a scene worthy of an action flick, it begs a question that I've never seen talked about.

Here you have Moses and Aaron standing before Pharaoh's court. Moses demands that Pharaoh release his people from bondage. Pharaoh basically tells Moses to get bent.

Now, Moses tells Aaron to cast his staff down before Pharaoh. Aaron does, and it becomes a serpent.

Now at this point, you would expect outright chaos and panic from the Egyptians. A freaking piece of wood literally turns into a deadly serpent right in front of their eyes. If I'm in a room and random shit starts turning into snakes, I'm noping myself right out of there.

But that isn't what happens. The Bible doesn't speak of panic, chaos, or people fleeing in terror.

Instead, it's a ho hum event. You made a snake. Whatever dude. Yawns in Egyptian.

Pharaoh is not impressed. He's like "Seriously? Bruh your magic game is weak. Get over here high priests and show this bearded loser what's up"

So the high priests come over and throw down their staffs and their staffs also turn into snakes which get promptly eaten by Aaron's snake/staff.

Again. No panic or wonder from the peanut gallery. This is just everyday life for Pharaoh and the high priests and apparently the people in Pharaoh's court.

Several questions come up for me at this point.

Why were the people and Pharaoh not shocked at these events?

How did the high priests know exactly what to do? Who taught them? How did they know it would work?

Is turning random objects into animals an everyday thing for the Egyptian priests? Apparently it is.

Now you can either say God put it into the priests minds, or the devil made them do it but the Bible does not say that. And if you say God did it, well that opens up an entirely new can of Egyptian worms.

The author of this story believed in magick. He wanted you to believe in it too. He wanted to demonstrate that greater magick (God's magick) is greater than lesser magick.