Exodus 4

1Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”Cross-references: Ex 2:14 · Ex 3:18 · Ex 4:31 · Ex 6:30 · Jer 1:6 · Ezek 3:14 · +1 more

2Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”Cross-references: Gen 30:37 · Ex 4:17 · Ex 4:20 · Lev 27:32 · Ps 110:2 · Isa 11:4 · +1 more

3He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.Cross-references: Ex 4:17 · Ex 7:10 · Amos 5:19

4Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.” He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.Cross-references: Gen 22:1 · Ps 91:13 · Mark 16:18 · Luke 10:19 · John 2:5 · Acts 28:3

5“This is so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 18:1 · Gen 26:2 · Gen 48:3 · Ex 3:6 · +14 more

6Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.” He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.Cross-references: Num 12:10 · 2Ki 5:27

7He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.Cross-references: Num 12:13 · Deut 32:39 · 2Ki 5:14 · Matt 8:3

8“It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.Cross-references: Ex 4:30 · Deut 32:39 · 2Ki 5:7 · Job 5:18 · Isa 28:10 · John 12:37

9It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”Cross-references: Ex 1:22 · Ex 7:19 · Matt 7:2

10Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”Cross-references: Ex 4:1 · Ex 6:12 · Job 12:2 · Jer 1:6 · Acts 7:22 · 1Cor 2:1 · +2 more

11Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?Cross-references: Gen 18:14 · Ps 51:15 · Ps 94:9 · Ps 146:8 · Isa 6:7 · Isa 35:5 · +7 more

12Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”Cross-references: Ps 25:4 · Ps 32:9 · Ps 143:10 · Isa 49:2 · Isa 50:4 · Jer 1:9 · +7 more

13Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”Cross-references: Gen 24:7 · Gen 48:16 · Ex 4:1 · Ex 23:20 · Judg 2:1 · 1Ki 19:4 · +7 more

14Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.Cross-references: Ex 4:17 · Ex 4:27 · 1Sam 10:1 · 2Sam 6:7 · 1Ki 11:9 · 1Chr 21:7 · +7 more

15You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.Cross-references: Ex 4:12 · Ex 7:1 · Num 22:38 · Num 23:5 · Num 23:12 · Num 23:16 · +10 more

16He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.Cross-references: Ex 7:1 · Ex 18:19 · Ps 82:6 · John 10:34

17You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”Cross-references: Ex 4:2 · Ex 7:9 · 1Cor 1:27

18Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”Cross-references: Gen 45:3 · Ex 3:1 · 1Sam 1:17 · Luke 7:50 · Acts 15:36 · Acts 16:36 · +1 more

19Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”Cross-references: Ex 2:15 · Ex 2:23 · Matt 2:20

20Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.Cross-references: Ex 4:2 · Ex 4:17 · Ex 17:9 · Ex 18:3 · Num 20:8 · Num 20:11

21Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.Cross-references: Gen 6:3 · Ex 3:20 · Ex 7:3 · Ex 7:13 · Ex 9:12 · Ex 9:35 · +17 more

22You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Deut 14:1 · Isa 63:16 · Isa 64:8 · Jer 31:9 · Hos 11:1 · +4 more

23and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”Cross-references: Ex 5:1 · Ex 7:16 · Ex 11:5 · Ex 12:29 · Ps 78:51 · Ps 105:36 · +1 more

24On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.Cross-references: Gen 17:14 · Gen 42:27 · Ex 3:18 · Lev 10:3 · Num 22:22 · 1Ki 13:24 · +2 more

25Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”Cross-references: Gen 17:14 · Josh 5:2 · 2Sam 16:7

26So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

27Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.Cross-references: Gen 29:11 · Ex 3:1 · Ex 4:14 · Ex 19:3 · Ex 20:18 · Ex 24:15 · +4 more

28Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.Cross-references: Ex 4:8 · Ex 4:15 · Jonah 3:2 · Matt 21:29

29Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 3:16 · Ex 24:1 · Ex 24:11

30Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.Cross-references: Ex 4:16

31The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.Cross-references: Gen 17:3 · Gen 24:26 · Ex 2:25 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 3:16 · Ex 3:18 · +7 more