Verse 4
Exodus 4:4
World English Bible
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Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.”
He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל מֹשֶׁ֔ה שְׁלַח֙ יָֽדְ/ךָ֔ וֶ/אֱחֹ֖ז בִּ/זְנָב֑/וֹ וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח יָד/וֹ֙ וַ/יַּ֣חֲזֶק בּ֔/וֹ וַ/יְהִ֥י לְ/מַטֶּ֖ה בְּ/כַפּֽ/וֹ
English Translation
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.
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Chapter 4 Context
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Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘...
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2
Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
He said, “A rod.”
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3
He said, “Throw it on the ground.”
He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran a...
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4
Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.”
He stretched out his hand, a...
5
“That they may believe that Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of their fathers, the God (Elohim) of Abraham,...
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6
Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.”
He put his hand inside his cl...
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7
He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.”
He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when h...
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8
“It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they wi...
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9
It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shal...
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10
Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to y...
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11
Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’...
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12
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”
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13
He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
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14
Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I kno...
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15
You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mout...
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16
He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you...
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17
You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
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18
Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return t...
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19
Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dea...
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20
Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Mo...
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21
Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders w...
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22
You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
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and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me”; and you have refused to let him go. B...
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24
On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.
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25
Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she sa...
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26
So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
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27
Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.”
He went, and met him on God (Elohim)’s...
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28
Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had...
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29
Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
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30
Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the pe...
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31
The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he...
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