Two brothers walked into the palace of the king of Egypt. Their names were Moses and Aaron, and they had come to tell Pharaoh to let their people go. To show that their God had sent them, Aaron threw his walking staff down on the floor in front of the king, and it turned into a snake.
Pharaoh was not impressed. He called his own wise men and magicians, and the book of Exodus says they threw down their staffs too, and every one of their staffs became a snake. Aaron's snake swallowed theirs, but the trick itself was the same one.
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