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Exodus 4 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:2 - The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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--
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - Again, the LORD said to him, "Put your hand into your bosom." And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - Then God said, "Put your hand back into your bosom." So he put his hand back into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:8 - "If they will not believe you," God said, "or heed the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - If they will not believe even these two signs or heed your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it upon the dry ground; and the water which you shall take from the Nile will become blood upon the dry ground."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:10 - But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either heretofore or since thou hast spoken to thy servant; but I am slow of speech and of tongue."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11 - Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:12 - Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:13 - But he said, "Oh, my Lord, send, I pray, some other person."

Aaron to Be Moses' Mouthpiece

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well; and behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:15 - And 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 shall do.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:16 - He shall speak for you to the people; and he shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:17 - And you shall take in your hand this rod, with which you shall do the signs."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18 - Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Let me go back, I pray, to my kinsmen in Egypt and see whether they are still alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:19 - And the LORD said to Moses in Mid'ian, "Go back to Egypt; for all the men who were seeking your life are dead."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:20 - So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an ass, and went back to the land of Egypt; and in his hand Moses took the rod of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:21 - And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:22 - And you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is my first-born son,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:23 - and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me"; if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:24 - At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:25 - Then Zippo'rah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:26 - So he let him alone. Then it was that she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went, and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:28 - And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him, and all the signs which he had charged him to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:29 - Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:30 - And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:31 - And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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