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2 Exodus 3:19-41
¹⁹And I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, except by force.
²⁰And I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all kinds of wonders which I will do among them; and after that Pharaoh will let you go.
²¹And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it will come to pass that, when you go, you will not go empty-handed;
²²but every woman will borrow of her neighbor and of her that stays in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of gold and clothes; and you will put them on your sons, and on your daughters; and you will despoil the Egyptians.

¹And Moses answered and said, But, look, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, Yahvah has not appeared to you.
²And Yahvah said to him, What is that in your hand? He said, A staff.
³And Yahvah said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
⁴And Yahvah said to Moses, Put forth your hand and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand;
⁵This is done that they may believe that Yahvah God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.
⁶And Yahvah said furthermore to him, Now put your hand into your chest. And he put his hand into his chest; and when he took it out, look, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
⁷Then Yahvah said to him, Put your hand back into your chest again. And he put his hand back into his chest; and when he took it out of his chest, look, it was clean like his other flesh.
⁸And if they will not believe you, nor listen to the voice of the 1st sign, they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
⁹And if they also will not believe these 2 signs, nor listen to your voice, you will take some of the water of the river and pour it on the dry land; and the water which you take from the river will become blood on the dry land.

¹⁰And Moses said to Yahvah, I beg you, my Master, I am not eloquent, not previously nor since you spoke to your servant; for I am a stutterer and slow of speech.
¹¹Yahvah said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Who makes the mute, or the deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, Yahvah?
¹²Now go and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you will speak.
¹³And Moses said to him, My Master, I beg you, send by the hand of whomever you will send.
¹⁴And the anger of Yahvah kindled against Moses, and he said to him, Look, Aaron, your brother, the Levite. I know that he is a good speaker, and also, look, he will come out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
¹⁵And you will speak to him and put my words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you will do.
¹⁶And he will be your spokesman to the people; and he will be an interpreter for you, and you will be to him instead of God.
¹⁷And you will take this staff in your hand, with which you will do signs.

¹⁸And Moses returned, and went to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
¹⁹And Yahvah said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.
²⁰And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and started on his way back to Egypt; and he took the staff of God in his hand.

²¹And Yahvah said to Moses, When you return to Egypt, see that you perform all the wonders before Pharaoh which I have performed by your hand, but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
²²And you will say to Pharaoh, Yahvah says, Israel is my firstborn son;
²³and I say to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me; and if you refuse to let him go, look, I will slay your firstborn son.

²⁴And it came to pass when Moses was on his way to the inn that Yahvah met him and sought to kill him.
²⁵Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son, and she fell down at the feet of Yahvah and said, I have a bloody husband.
²⁶So Yahvah let him go. Then she said, You are a bloody husband, because of the circumcision.

²⁷And Yahvah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and met him in the mountain of God, Horeb, and kissed him.
²⁸And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahvah, who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him to perform.
²⁹Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel;
³⁰and Aaron spoke all the words which Yahvah had said to Moses, and performed the signs in the presence of the people.
³¹And the people believed; and when they heard that Yahvah had remembered the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they knelt down and worshiped before Yahvah.

¹And afterward Moses and Aaron went into the house and told Pharaoh, Yahvah God of Israel says, Let my people go that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.
²And Pharaoh said, Who is Yahvah, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Yahvah, nor will I let Israel go.
³And they said, Yahvah God of the Hebrews has appeared to us; now let us go 3 days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to Yahvah our God; lest he fall on us with the sword or with pestilence.