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1 And Moses answered and said, "But behold, they will not believe me and will not listen to my voice, for they will say, 'The Lord has not appeared to you.'" 2 And the Lord said to me, "What is that in your hand?" And I said, "A staff." 3 And he said, "Throw it to the ground," and he threw it to the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand and take hold of its tail." So he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand. 5 So that they may believe that You, Lord, are the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 6 And the Lord said to him, "Put your hand back into your bosom." So he put his hand back into his bosom, and when he brought it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. 7 And he said, "Return your hand to your bosom." And he returned his hand to his bosom, and he drew it out from his bosom, and behold, it had turned back like his flesh. 8 And it will be, if they do not believe you and will not listen to the voice of the first sign, then they will believe the voice of the last sign. 9 And it will be, if they do not believe even these two signs, and do not listen to your voice, then you shall take from the waters of the river and pour them on the dry land, and the waters which you take from the river shall become blood on the dry land. 10 And Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I am not a man of words, neither yesterday, nor the day before, nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue." 11 And the LORD said to me, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?" 12 And now go, and I will be with your mouth and I will instruct you what you shall speak. 13 And he said to Me, "Lord, please send by the hand of whom You will send." 14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and He said, "Is not Aaron your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak; and behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart." 15 And you shall speak to me, and you shall put the words in my mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do. 16 And He spoke to you to the people, and he shall be to you for a mouth, and you shall be to him for a god. 17 And you shall take this staff in your hand, with which you shall do the signs. 18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go back to my brothers who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace." 19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, for all the men who seek your life have died." 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons and he mounted them on the donkey and he returned to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand. 21 And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your hand; but I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go." 22 And you shall say to Pharaoh, "Thus says the Lord, 'Israel is my firstborn.'" 23 And I said to you, "Send away my son so that he may serve me," but you refused to send him. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son. 24 And it came to pass on the way at the lodging place that the Lord encountered him and sought to kill him. 25 And Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to his feet and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." 26 And he let loose from us; then she said, "A husband of bloods for the circumcisions." 27 And the LORD said to Aaron, "Go to meet Moses in the wilderness." And he went and met him at the mountain of God, and he kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD which He had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him. 29 And Moses and Aaron went, and they gathered all the elders of the children of Israel. 30 And Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and he did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people believed and heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, and they bowed down and worshiped.