If They Will Not Believe These Signs

4 Then Moses answered and said, “What if they will not believe me and will not ^(A)listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘^(B)Yahweh has not appeared to you.’” ² And Yahweh said to him, “What is this in your hand?” And he said, “^(C)A staff.” ³ Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and ^(D)it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. ⁴ And Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and took hold of it, and it became a staff in his ^[a]hand— ⁵ “that ^(E)they may believe that ^(F)Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

¹⁷ So ^[a]Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your eyes, then do ^(A)a sign for me that it is You who speak with me.

⁷ “Now this shall be the ^(A)sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this word that He has spoken:

^18 (A)The Jews then said to Him, “^(B)What sign do You show us ^[a]as your authority for doing these things?”

²² For indeed ^(A)Jews ask for ^[a]signs and Greeks search for wisdom,