EX-4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not
believe me,
nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not
appeared unto
thee.
EX-4:2 And the LORD said unto him, What [is] that in thine
hand? And he said,
A rod.
EX-4:3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on
the ground, and
it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
EX-4:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and
take it by the
tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a
rod in his
hand:
EX-4:5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers,
the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared
unto thee.
EX-4:6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine
hand into thy
bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it
out, behold,
his hand [was] leprous as snow.
EX-4:7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he
put his hand
into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and,
behold, it was
turned again as his [other] flesh.
EX-4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee,
neither
hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe
the voice of
the latter sign.
EX-4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also
these two
signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of
the water of
the river, and pour [it] upon the dry [land]: and the water
which thou takest
out of the river shall become blood upon the dry [land].
EX-4:10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I [am] not
eloquent, neither
heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I
[am] slow of
speech, and of a slow tongue.
EX-4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth?
or who maketh
the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the
LORD?
EX-4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and
teach thee what
thou shalt say.
EX-4:13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand
[of him whom]
thou wilt send.
EX-4:14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses,
and he said,
[Is] not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak
well. And
also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth
thee, he will be
glad in his heart.
EX-4:15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his
mouth: and I will
be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what
ye shall do.
EX-4:16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he
shall be,
[even] he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be
to him
instead of God.
EX-4:17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith
thou shalt do
signs.
EX-4:18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law,
and said
unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren
which [are] in
Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to
Moses, Go in
peace.
EX-4:19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into
Egypt: for
all the men are dead which sought thy life.
EX-4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon
an ass, and
he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God
in his hand.
EX-4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return
into Egypt,
see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have
put in thine
hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the
people go.
EX-4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD,
Israel [is] my
son, [even] my firstborn:
EX-4:23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve
me: and if thou
refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, [even] thy
firstborn.
EX-4:24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the
LORD met him, and
sought to kill him.
EX-4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the
foreskin of her
son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody
husband [art] thou
to me.
EX-4:26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou
art], because
of the circumcision.
EX-4:27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to
meet Moses. And
he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
EX-4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had
sent him, and
all the signs which he had commanded him.
EX-4:29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the
elders of the
children of Israel:
EX-4:30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken
unto Moses,
and did the signs in the sight of the people.
EX-4:31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the
LORD had
visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon
their affliction,
then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
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