rsv Exodus:4:1-5
rsv@Exodus: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.'"
rsv@Exodus:4:2 @ The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."
rsv@Exodus: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.
rsv@Exodus: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--
rsv@Exodus: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."