Exodus:4
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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 .
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And the LORD said unto him ,
What is that in thine hand ?
And he said ,
A rod .
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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 .
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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 :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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Now therefore go ,
and I will be with thy mouth ,
and teach thee what thou shalt say .
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And he said ,
O my Lord ,
send ,
I pray thee ,
by the hand of him whom thou wilt send .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand ,
wherewith thou shalt do signs .
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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 .
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And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian ,
Go ,
return into Egypt :
for all the men are dead which sought thy life .
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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 .
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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 .
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And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
Israel is my son ,
even my firstborn :
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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 .
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And it came to pass by the way in the inn ,
that the LORD met him ,
and sought to kill him .
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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 .
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So he let him go :
then she said ,
A bloody husband thou art ,
because of the circumcision .
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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 .
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And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him ,
and all the signs which he had commanded him .
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And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel :
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And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses ,
and did the signs in the sight of the people .
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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 .