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Exodus - ch 4 v 1 - 20
- Moses answered and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee.
- Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.
- And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent: so that Moses fled from it.
- And the Lord said: Put out thy hand and take it by the tail. He put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod.
- That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee.
- And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow.
- And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh.
- If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign.
- But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest out of the river shall be turned into blood.
- Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord. I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before: and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue.
- The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?
- Go therefore and I will be in thy mouth: and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.
- But he said: I beseech thee, Lord send whom thou wilt send.
- The Lord being angry at Moses, said Aaron the Levite is thy brother, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet thee, and seeing thee shall be glad at heart.
- Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his mouth, and will shew you what you must do.
- He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.
- And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.
- Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him: I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.
- And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt: for they are all dead that sought thy life.
- Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass: and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.
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