1Moses answered and said, "Look, they will not believe me and they will not listen to my voice, because they will say, 'The LORD has not appeared to you.'"2The LORD said to him, "What is this in your hand?" And he said, "A rod."3He said, "Throw it on the ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from its presence.4The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand and grasp it by the tail." He stretched out his hand and grasped it, and it became a rod in his hand.5They will believe because the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.6The LORD said to him, "Put your hand in your bosom." He put his hand in his bosom, and when he brought it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.7He said, "Put your hand back into your bosom." He put his hand back into his bosom, and when he brought it out, behold, it had returned like his flesh.8If they will not believe you and will not listen to the voice of the first sign, they will believe the voice of the last sign.9If they will not believe also these two signs and will not listen to your voice, then you shall take water from the Nile and pour it on the dry land, and the water that you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry land.10Moses said to the LORD, "Please, my Lord, I am not a man of words, neither from yesterday nor from three days ago nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am heavy of lip and heavy of tongue."11The LORD said to him, "Who has set a mouth for man? Or who makes him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?"12Now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you shall speak.13He said, "Please, my Lord, send by the hand of whomever you will send."14Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and he said, "Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you he will rejoice in his heart."15You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.16He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be as God to him.17And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.