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1. Moses replied as follows, 'But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my words, and say to me, "Yahweh has not appeared to you"?'

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.'"

2. Yahweh then said, 'What is that in your hand?' 'A staff,' he said.

2. The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."

3. 'Throw it on the ground,' said Yahweh. Moses threw it on the ground; the staff turned into a snake and Moses recoiled from it.

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.

4. Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Reach out your hand and catch it by the tail.' He reached out his hand, caught it, and in his hand it turned back into a staff.

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 --

5. 'Thus they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.'

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."

6. Next, Yahweh said to him, 'Put your hand inside your tunic.' He put his hand inside his tunic, then drew it out again: and his hand was diseased, white as snow.

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.

7. Yahweh then said, 'Put your hand back inside your tunic.' He put his hand back inside his tunic and when he drew it out, there it was restored, just like the rest of his flesh.

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.

8. 'Even so: should they not believe you nor be convinced by the first sign, the second sign will convince them;

8. "If they will not believe you," God said, "or heed the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.

9. but should they not be convinced by either of these two signs and refuse to listen to what you say, you are to take some water from the River and pour it on the ground, and the water you have taken from the River will turn to blood on the dry land.'

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."

10. Moses said to Yahweh, 'Please, my Lord, I have never been eloquent, even since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow and hesitant of speech.'

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."

11. 'Who gave a person a mouth?' Yahweh said to him. 'Who makes a person dumb or deaf, gives sight or makes blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?

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?

12. Now go, I shall help you speak and instruct you what to say.'

12. Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak."

13. 'Please, my Lord,' Moses replied, 'send anyone you decide to send!'

13. But he said, "Oh, my Lord, send, I pray, some other person."

14. At this, Yahweh's anger kindled against Moses, and he said to him, 'There is your brother Aaron the Levite, is there not? I know that he is a good speaker. Here he comes to meet you. When he sees you, his heart will be full of joy.

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.

15. You will speak to him and tell him what message to give. I shall help you speak, and him too, and instruct you what to do.

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.

16. He will speak to the people in your place; he will be your mouthpiece, and you will be as the god inspiring him.

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.

17. And take this staff in your hand; with this you will perform the signs.'

17. And you shall take in your hand this rod, with which you shall do the signs."

18. Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, 'Give me leave to return to my kinsmen in Egypt and see if they are still alive.' And Jethro said to Moses, 'Go in peace.'

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."

19. Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, 'Go, return to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.'

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."

20. So Moses took his wife and his son and, putting them on a donkey, started back for Egypt; and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

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.

21. Yahweh said to Moses, 'Think of the wonders I have given you power to perform, once you are back in Egypt! You are to perform them before Pharaoh, but I myself shall make him obstinate, and he will not let the people go.

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.

22. You will then say to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh says: Israel is my first-born son.

22. And you shall say to Pharaoh, `Thus says the LORD, Israel is my first-born son,

23. I told you: Let my son go and worship me; but since you refuse to let him go, well then! I shall put your first-born son to death." '

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.'"

24. On the journey, when he had halted for the night, Yahweh encountered him and tried to kill him.

24. At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to kill him.

25. Then Zipporah, taking up a flint, cut off her son's foreskin and with it touched his feet and said, 'You are my blood-bridegroom!'

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!"

26. So he let him go. She said, 'Blood-bridegroom' then, with reference to the circumcision.

26. So he let him alone. Then it was that she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

27. Yahweh said to Aaron, 'Go into the desert to meet Moses.' So he went, and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

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.

28. Moses then told Aaron all that Yahweh had said when sending him and all the signs he had ordered him to perform.

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.

29. Moses and Aaron then went and gathered all the elders of the Israelites together,

29. Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.

30. and Aaron repeated everything that Yahweh had said to Moses, and in the sight of the people performed the signs.

30. And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

31. The people were convinced, and they rejoiced that Yahweh had visited the Israelites and seen their misery, and they bowed to the ground in worship.

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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