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4 Then Moses answered, and said, “But lo, they will neither believe me nor listen to my voice. For they will say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”
2 And the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he answered, “A rod.”
3 Then he said, “Cast it on the ground.” So, he cast it on the ground; and it was turned into a serpent. And Moses fled from it.
4 Again the LORD said to Moses, “Put forth your hand and take it by the tail.” Then he put forth his hand and caught it; and it was turned into a rod in his hand.
5 “Do this, so that they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has appeared to you.”
6 And furthermore, the LORD said to him, “Now, thrust your hand into your bosom.” And he thrust his hand into his bosom. And when he took it out again, behold his hand was leprous as snow.
7 Moreover, He said, “Put your hand into your bosom again.” So, he put his hand into his bosom again and pulled it out of his bosom. And behold, it was turned back as his other flesh.
8 “So shall it be, if they will not believe you or obey the voice of the first sign, they shall still believe the voice of the second sign.
9 “But, if they will still not believe these two signs or obey your voice, then you shall take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land. So, the water which you shall take out of the river shall be turned to blood upon the dry land.”
10 But Moses said to the LORD, “Oh my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant. But I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
11 Then the LORD said to him, “Who has given the mouth to man? Or, Who has made the dumb or the deaf or him who sees or the blind? Have not I, the LORD?
12 “Therefore, go now; and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you shall say.”
13 But he said, “Oh, my LORD. Please send by the hand of someone else.”
14 Then the LORD was very angry with Moses, and said, “Do not I know Aaron, your brother, the Levite; that he himself shall speak? For lo, he also comes forth to meet you. And when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
15 “Therefore, you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you ought to do.
16 “And he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he shall be, indeed he shall be as your mouth. And you shall be to him as God.
17 “Moreover, you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do miracles.”
18 Therefore, Moses went and returned to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please, let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see whether they are still alive.” Then Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19 (For the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt. For they are all dead who plotted to kill you.)
20 Then Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on a donkey and returned toward the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
21 And the LORD said to Moses, “When you have entered and come into Egypt again, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand. But I will harden his heart; and he shall not let the people go.
22 “Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Israel is My son, My firstborn.
23 “Therefore I say to you, ‘Let My son go, so that he may serve Me. If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.’”’”
24 And as he was on the way, in the Inn, the LORD met him, and would have killed him.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp knife and cut away the foreskin of her son and cast it at his feet, and said, “You are indeed a bloody husband to me.”
26 So He departed from him. Then she said, “O bloody husband!” (because of the circumcision)
27 Then the LORD said to Aaron, “Go meet Moses in the wilderness.” And he went and met him on the Mount of God and kissed him.
28 Then Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD Who had sent him, and all the signs with which He had charged him.
29 So Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the children of Israel.
30 And Aaron told all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses. And he did the miracles in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed. And when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel and had looked upon their tribulation, they bowed down and worshipped.
5 Then afterward, Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Let my people go, so that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
2 And Pharaoh said, “Who is the ‘LORD’, that I should hear His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the ‘LORD’, nor will I let Israel go.”
3 And they said, “We worship the God of the Hebrews. Please, let us go three days’ journey in the desert and sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest He bring the pestilence or sword upon us.”
4 Then the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to cease from their works? Get to work!”
5 Pharaoh said furthermore, “Behold, many people are now in the land, and you make them stop working.”
6 Therefore, that same day, Pharaoh gave commandment to the taskmasters of the people, and to their officers, saying,
7 “You shall give the people no more straw to make brick (as in times past). Let them go and gather straw themselves.
8 “Nevertheless, lay upon them the same number of bricks which they made before. Diminish nothing thereof. For they are idle. Therefore, they cry, saying, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifice to our God.’
9 “Lay more work upon the men and make them do it; and do not let them listen to false words.”
10 Then, the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and told the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will give you no more straw.
11 “Go get straw for yourselves, wherever you can find it. But nothing of your labor shall be diminished.’”
12 Then, the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather chaff instead of straw.
13 And the taskmasters hurried them, saying, “Finish your day’s work - every day’s task - as you did when you had straw.”
14 And the officers of the children of Israel (which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them) were beaten, and were asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your task in making bricks yesterday and today, as in times past?”
15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
16 “There is no straw given to your servants; and they say to us, ‘Make brick!’ And lo, your servants are beaten and your people are blamed.”
17 But he said, “You are too idle! Therefore, you say, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifice to the LORD.’
18 “Go now, therefore, and work! For there shall be no straw given to you! Yet you shall still deliver the whole quota of bricks!”
19 Then, the officers of the children of Israel saw the evil upon them, because it was said, “You shall diminish nothing of your bricks, nor of every day’s task.”
20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in their way as they came out from Pharaoh.
21 To whom they said, “The LORD look upon you and judge. For you have made our savor stink before Pharaoh, and before his servants, in that you have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
22 Therefore, Moses returned to the LORD and said, “LORD, why have you afflicted this people? Why have you sent me?
23 “For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has troubled this people. And yet, You have not delivered Your people.”
6 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For by a strong hand, he shall let them go, and even be constrained to drive them out of his land.”
2 Moreover, God spoke to Moses, and said to him, “I am the LORD.
3 “And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob by the Name of Almighty God. But by My Name, ‘Jehovah’, I was not known to them.
4 “Furthermore, as I made My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan (the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers),
5 “so I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage. And I have remembered My covenant.
6 “Therefore, say to the children of Israel, ‘I am the LORD; and I will bring you out from the burdens of the Egyptians, and will deliver you out of their bondage, and will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and in great judgments.’
7 “Also, I will take you for My people, and will be your God. Then you shall know that I, the LORD your God, brings you out from the burdens of the Egyptians.
8 “And I will bring you into the land which I swore that I would give to Abraham, and to Isaac, and to Jacob. And I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.”
9 So, Moses told this to the children of Israel. But they did not listen to Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.
10 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
11 “Go tell Pharaoh, King of Egypt, to let the children of Israel go out of his land.”
12 But Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. The children of Israel do not listen to me. How then shall Pharaoh hear me?”
13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and charged them to go to the children of Israel and to Pharaoh, King of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
14 These are the heads of their father’s houses. The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, are Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben.
15 Also, the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul (the son of a Canaanitish woman). These are the families of Simeon.
16 These, also, are the names of the sons of Levi, in their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari (and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty-seven years).
17 The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimi, by their families,
18 and the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And Kohath lived a hundred thirty-three years.
19 Also, the sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Levi and their kindreds.
20 And Amram took Jochebed, his father’s sister, to be his wife. And she bore him Aaron and Moses. And Amram lived a hundred thirty-seven years.
21 Also, the sons of Izhar were Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
22 And the sons of Uzziel were Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
23 And Aaron took Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, to be his wife. She bore him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
24 Also, the sons of Korah were Assir, and Elkanah and Abiasaph. These are the families of the Korahites.
25 And Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took one of the daughters of Putiel to be his wife, who bore him Phinehas. These are the principal fathers of the Levites, throughout their families.
26 These are Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, “Bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, according to their armies.”
27 These are that Moses and Aaron who spoke to Pharaoh, King of Egypt, that they might bring the children of Israel out of Egypt.
28 And at that time—when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt—
29 the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the LORD. Speak to Pharaoh, the King of Egypt, all that I say to you.”
30 Then Moses said before the LORD, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How, then, shall Pharaoh hear me?”
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