The Source of Sufficiency
1Moses answered again, “And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say, ‘The
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5“that they may believe that the
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7He said, “Put your hand back into your robe.” So he put his hand back into his robe, and when he brought it out from his robe – there it was, restored like the rest of his skin!
8“If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.
9And if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to you, then take some water from the Nile and pour it out on the dry ground. The water you take out of the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”
10Then Moses said to the
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12So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”
13But Moses said, “O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!”
14Then the
15“So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you must do.
16He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.
17You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”
The Return of Moses
18So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
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20Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
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22You must say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the
23and I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”
24Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the
25But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
26So the
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28Moses told Aaron all the words of the
29Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.
30Aaron spoke all the words that the
31and the people believed. When they heard that the