1Moses answered and said: See, they will not believe me nor hearken unto my voice: but will say, the LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
2Then the LORD said unto him: what is that in thine hand? and he said, a rod.
3And he said, cast it on the ground, and it turned unto a serpent. And Moses ran away from it.
4And the LORD said unto Moses: put forth thine hand and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a rod again in his hand,
5that they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob hath appeared unto thee.
6And the LORD said furthermore unto him: thrust thine hand into thy bosom. And he thrust his hand into his bosom and took it out. And behold, his hand was leprous even as snow.
7And he said: put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again, and plucked it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
8If they will not believe thee neither hear the voice of the first token: yet will they believe the voice of the second token.
9But and if they will not believe the two signs neither hearken unto thy voice, then take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land. And the water which thou takest out of the river shall turn to blood upon the dry land.
10And Moses said unto the LORD: Oh my Lord.(the Lorde: oh my Lorde.) I am not eloquent, no not in times past and namely since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow mouthed and slow tongued.
11And the LORD said unto him: who hath made man's mouth, or who hath made the dumb or the deaf, the seeing or the blind? have not I the LORD?
12Go therefore and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say.
13And he said: Oh my Lord,(Lorde)(LORDE) send I pray thee whom thou wilt.
14And the LORD was angry with Moses and said: I know Aaron thy brother the Levite that he can speak. And moreover behold, he cometh out against(to meet) thee, and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
15And thou shalt speak unto him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with thy mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
16And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: he shall be thy mouth, and thou shalt be his God:
17and take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do miracles.
18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law again and said unto him: let me go (I pray thee) and turn again unto my brethren which are in Egypt, that I may see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses: go in peace.
19And the LORD said unto Moses in Madian: return again into Egypt for they are dead which went about to kill thee.
20And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass, and went again to Egypt, and took the rod of God in his hand.
21And the LORD said unto Moses: when thou art come into Egypt again, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharao which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart, so that he shall not let the people go.
22And tell Pharao, thus sayeth the LORD: Israel is mine eldest son,
23and therefore sayeth unto thee: let my son go, that he may serve me. If thou wilt not let him go: behold, I will slay thine eldest son.
24And it chanced by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him and would have killed him.
25Then Zepora took a stone and circumcised her son, and fell at his feet, and said: a bloody husband art thou unto me.
26And he let him go. She said a bloody husband, because of the circumcision.
27Then said the LORD unto Aaron: go meet Moses in the wilderness. And he went and met him in the mount of God and kissed him.
28And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD which he had sent by him, and all the tokens which he had charged him withal.
29So went Moses and Aaron and gathered all the elders of the children of Israel.
30And Aaron told all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the miracles in the sight of the people,
31and the people believed. And when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel and had looked upon their tribulation, they bowed them selves, and worshipped.