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Signs for Moses
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Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ’The LORD did not appear to you’?"
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Then the LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" "A staff," he replied. SCode Exo 4:17 Exo 4:20
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The LORD said, "Throw it on the ground." Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
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Then the LORD said to him, "Reach out your hand and take it by the tail." So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
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"This," said the LORD, "is so 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." SCode Exo 3:6~7 Exo 19:9
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Then the LORD said, "Put your hand inside your cloak." So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous - it had become as white as snow. SCode Num 12:10 2Ki 5:27
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"Now put it back into your cloak," he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh. SCode 2Ki 5:14
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Then the LORD said, "If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second.
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But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground." SCode Exo 7:19
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Moses said to the LORD, "Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue." SCode Exo 6:12 Jer 1:6
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The LORD said to him, "Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
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Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say." SCode Exo 3:12 Isa 50:4 Jer 1:9 Ezk 33:22 Mt 10:19~20 Mk 13:11 Lk 12:11~12 Lk 21:15
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But Moses said, "Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else."
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Then the LORD’s anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. SCode Exo 4:27
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You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. SCode Exo 7:1~2 Exo 4:12 Num 23:5 Num 23:12 Num 23:16 Num 22:38 Deu 18:18 2Sam 14:3 2Sam 14:19 Isa 51:16
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He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. SCode Exo 7:1 Exo 18:19 Exo 4:30
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But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it." SCode Exo 4:2 Exo 7:15
Moses Returns to Egypt
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Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive." Jethro said, "Go, and I wish you well." SCode Exo 2:18
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Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead." SCode Exo 2:15 Exo 2:23 Mt 2:20
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So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand. SCode Exo 18:2~4 Exo 17:9 Num 20:8~9
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The LORD said to Moses, "When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. SCode Exo 10:1 Exo 14:8 Exo 9:12 Exo 7:13 Exo 8:15 Exo 3:20 Exo 7:22 Exo 8:32 Exo 9:35 Deu 2:30 Jos 11:20 Isa 63:17 Rom 9:17~18
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Then say to Pharaoh, ’This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son, SCode Jer 31:9 Hos 11:1
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and I told you, "Let my son go, so he may worship me." But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’" SCode Exo 11:5 Exo 12:29
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At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses[b] and was about to kill him. SCode Gen 17:14 Num 22:22 1Chr 21:16
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But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me," she said. SCode Exo 2:21 Jos 5:2~3
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So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said "bridegroom of blood," referring to circumcision.)
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The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. SCode Exo 3:1 Exo 4:14
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Then Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform. SCode Exo 4:3~9 Exo 4:15~16
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Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites, SCode Exo 3:16
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and Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people, SCode Exo 4:16
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and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped. SCode Gen 24:26 Exo 4:8~9 Exo 3:16 Exo 3:18 Exo 2:25 Exo 12:27 1Chr 29:20
NIV Footnotes
  1. 4:6 The Hebrew word for leprous was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
  2. 4:24 Hebrew him
  3. 4:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
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