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| 4:1 |
Then Moses answered, 'But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, The LORD did not appear to you.''
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| 4:2 |
The LORD said to him, 'What is that in your hand?' He said, 'A rod.'
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| 4:3 |
And he said, 'Cast it on the ground.' So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent;and Moses fled from it.
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| 4:4 |
But the LORD said to Moses, 'Put out your hand, and take it by the tail' -- so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand --
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| 4:5 |
'that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.'
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| 4:6 |
Again, the LORD said to him, 'Put your hand into your bosom.' And he put his hand into his bosom;and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
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| 4:7 |
Then God said, 'Put your hand back into your bosom.' So he put his hand back into his bosom;and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.
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| 4:8 |
'If they will not believe you,' God said, 'or heed the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.
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| 4:9 |
If they will not believe even these two signs or heed your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it upon the dry ground;and the water which you shall take from the Nile will become blood upon the dry ground.'
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| 4:10 |
But Moses said to the LORD,'Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either heretofore or since thou hast spoken to thy servant;but I am slow of speech and of tongue.'
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| 4:11 |
Then the LORD said to him, 'Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
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| 4:12 |
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.'
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| 4:13 |
But he said, 'Oh, my Lord, send, I pray, some other person.'
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| 4:14 |
Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, 'Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well;and behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.
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| 4:15 |
And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth;and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
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| 4:16 |
He shall speak for you to the people;and he shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.
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| 4:17 |
And you shall take in your hand this rod, with which you shall do the signs.'
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| 4:18 |
Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, 'Let me go back, I pray, to my kinsmen in Egypt and see whether they are still alive.' And Jethro said to Moses, 'Go in peace.'
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| 4:19 |
And the LORD said to Moses in Mid'ian, 'Go back to Egypt;for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.'
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| 4:20 |
So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an ass, and went back to the land of Egypt;and in his hand Moses took the rod of God.
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| 4:21 |
And the LORD said to Moses, 'When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles which I have put in your power;but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
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| 4:22 |
And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD, Israel is my first-born son,
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| 4:23 |
and I say to you, 'Let my son go that he may serve me';if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son.''
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| 4:24 |
At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to kill him.
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| 4:25 |
Then Zippo'rah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, and said, 'Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!'
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| 4:26 |
So he let him alone. Then it was that she said, 'You are a bridegroom of blood,' because of the circumcision.
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| 4:27 |
The LORD said to Aaron, 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.' So he went, and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.
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| 4:28 |
And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him, and all the signs which he had charged him to do.
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| 4:29 |
Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.
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| 4:30 |
And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
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| 4:31 |
And the people believed;and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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