Exodus 4:1–8

Moses Given Powers

¹Then Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or ^alisten ¹to what I say? For they may say, ‘^bThe Lord has not appeared to you.’ ”

²The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “^aA staff.”

³Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and ^ait became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.

⁴But the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his ¹hand—

⁵“that ^athey may believe that ^bthe Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

⁶The Lord furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was ^aleprous like snow.

⁷Then He said, “Put your hand into your bosom again.” So he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, ^ait was restored like the rest of his flesh.

⁸“If they will not believe you or ¹heed the ²witness of the first sign, they may believe the witness of the last sign.