Exodus 4:1-3

Living Bible

4 But Moses said, “They won’t believe me! They won’t do what I tell them to. They’ll say, ‘Jehovah never appeared to you!’”

² “What do you have there in your hand?” the Lord asked him.

And he replied, “A shepherd’s rod.”

³ “Throw it down on the ground,” the Lord told him. So he threw it down—and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it!