¶Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”

¶Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
¶He said, “A rod.”

¶He said, “Throw it on the ground.”
¶He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

¶Yahweh said to Moses, “Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail.”
¶He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

¶“That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.”
¶He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

¶He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.”
¶He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

¶“It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”

¶Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

¶Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

Now therefore And now go, and I myself will be with open your mouth, and teach articulate (for) you what you shall are going to speak.”

¶He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

¶The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother,^[a] the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

You And you shall will speak to him, and put the my words in his mouth., and I myself will be with open your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach articulate (for the both of) you what you shall will do.

He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”

¶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.”
¶Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

¶Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”

¶Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.Upon taking up the wife and children*, Moses drew them upon the beast of burden and turned around into Egypt. And Moses took the padron (hooked staff), the one from beside God in His hand