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Then Moses said to God, "But the Israelites will not believe me when I tell them that you sent me. They will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.'"

Then God said, "Throw your walking stick on the ground." So Moses threw his walking stick on the ground, and it became a snake. Moses ran from it,

Then God said, "Use your stick in this way, and the people will believe that you saw the Lord , the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."

Then God said, "Now put your hand into your robe again." So Moses put his hand into his robe again. Then he brought his hand out, and his hand was changed. Now his hand was good again, as it was before.

Then God said, "If the people don't believe you when you use your walking stick, then they will believe you when you show them this sign.

So Aaron will speak for you. Like God, you will speak to him, and he will tell the people what you say.

So Moses put his wife and children on the donkey and returned to Egypt. He carried his walking stick with him—the walking stick with the power of God.

Zipporah said this because she had to circumcise her son. So God let Moses live.

The Lord had spoken to Aaron and told him, "Go out into the desert and meet Moses." So Aaron went and met Moses at the Mountain of God. He saw Moses and kissed him.

Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had commanded him to say and all the miracles he must do to prove that God had sent him.

and they believed what they had heard. Then the Israelites understood that the Lord had seen their troubles and had come to help them. So they bowed down and worshiped God.

After Moses and Aaron talked to the people, they went to Pharaoh and said, "The Lord , the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go into the desert so that they can have a festival to honor me.'"

Then Aaron and Moses said, "The God of the Hebrews has talked with us. So we beg you to let us travel three days into the desert. There we will offer a sacrifice to the Lord our God. If we don't do this, he might become angry and destroy us. He might make us die from sickness or war."

But they must still make the same number of bricks as they did before. They have gotten lazy. That is why they are asking me to let them go. They don't have enough work to do. That is why they asked me to let them make sacrifices to their God.

Then God said to Moses, "I am the Lord .

I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They called me God All-Powerful. They did not know my name, the Lord .

You will be my people and I will be your God. I am the Lord your God, and you will know that I made you free from Egypt.

The Lord said to Moses, "See how important I have made you? In speaking to Pharaoh, you will be like God, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

Tell him this: ‘The Lord , the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you. He told me to tell you to let his people go worship him in the desert. Until now you have not listened to the Lord.

Pharaoh said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "It will happen as you say. In this way you will know that there is no god like the Lord our God.