Moses Given Powerful Signs
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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.'"
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The Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, i "A staff."
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And he said, "Throw it on the ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it.
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But the Lord said to Moses, "Put out your hand and catch it by the tail" - so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand -
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"that they may j believe that the Lord, k the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."
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Again, the Lord said to him, "Put your hand inside your cloak." And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was l leprous like snow.
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Then God said, "Put your hand back inside your cloak." So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, m it was restored like the rest of his flesh.
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"If they will not believe you," God said, "or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.
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If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile n will become blood on the dry ground."
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But Moses said to the Lord, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but o I am slow of speech and of tongue."
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Then the Lord said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
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Now therefore go, and p I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak."
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But he said, "Oh, my Lord, please send someone else."
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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. Behold, q he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
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r You shall speak to him and s put the words in his mouth, and p I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.
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t He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and u you shall be as God to him.
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And take in your hand v this staff, with which you shall do the signs."
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Cross References
Exodus 4:17
And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.
Exodus 4:20
So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
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Cross References
Exodus 19:9
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.
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Cross References
Exodus 3:6
And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
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Numbers 12:10
When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
2 Kings 5:27
Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever." So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow.
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Cross References
2 Kings 5:14
So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
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Cross References
Exodus 7:19
And the Lord said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'
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Cross References
Exodus 6:12
But Moses said to the Lord, "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?
Jeremiah 1:6
Then I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.
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Cross References
Exodus 3:12
He said, "But I will be with you, and this shal...
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those w...
Jeremiah 1:9
Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my m...
Ezekiel 33:22
Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the e...
Matthew 10:19 - 20
When they deliver you over, do not be anxious h...
Mark 13:11
And when they bring you to trial and deliver yo...
Luke 12:11 - 12
And when they bring you before the synagogues a...
Luke 21:15
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which n...
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Cross References
Exodus 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.
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Cross References
Exodus 7:1 - 2
And the Lord said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.
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Cross References
Numbers 22:38
Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to y...
Numbers 23:5
And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth and s...
Numbers 23:12
And he answered and said, "Must I not take care...
Numbers 23:16
And the Lord met Balaam and put a word in his m...
Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise up for them a prophet like you fro...
2 Samuel 14:3
Go to the king and speak thus to him." So Joab ...
2 Samuel 14:19
The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in...
Isaiah 51:16
And I have put my words in your mouth and cover...
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Cross References
Exodus 4:12
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.
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Exodus 4:30
Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people.
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Exodus 7:1
And the Lord said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.
Exodus 18:19
Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God.
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Cross References
Exodus 4:2
The Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A staff.
Exodus 7:15
Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent.
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