The Lord gives signs to Moses—Aaron chosen as a spokesman—Israel is the Lord’s firstborn and must be released to serve him—Circumcision of Moses’ son—Moses and Aaron lead Israel in worship.

 AND Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not ^abelieve^• me, nor ^bhearken^• unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.

 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.

 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:

 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

 ¶ And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was ^aleprous as snow.

 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and ^aplucked^• it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was ^bturned^• again as his other flesh.

 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter ^asign.

 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of ^athe^• river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become ^bblood^• upon the dry land.

 ¶ And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of ^aspeech^•, and of a ^bslow^• tongue.

 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who ^amaketh^• the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy ^amouth^•, and ^bteach^• thee what thou shalt say.

 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, ^aby^• the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

 And the ^aanger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy ^amouth, and with his mouth, and will ^bteach^• you what ye shall do.

 And he shall be thy ^aspokesman^• unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him ^binstead^• of ^cGod^•.

 And thou shalt take this ^arod^• in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.

 ¶ And Moses went and returned to ^aJethro^• his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are ^adead^• which sought thy ^blife^•.

 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the ^arod^• of God in his hand.

 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those ^awonders^• before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine ^bhand^•: ^cbut^• I will ^dharden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, ^aIsrael^• is my ^bson^•, even my ^cfirstborn:

 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy ^ason^•, even thy firstborn.

 ¶ ^aAnd^• it came to pass ^bby^• the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to ^ckill^• him.

 Then Zipporah took a ^asharp^• stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a ^bbloody^• husband art thou to me.

 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the ^acircumcision.

 ¶ And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the ^amount^• of God, and kissed him.

 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.

 ¶ And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the ^aelders^• of the children of Israel:

 And Aaron ^aspake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

 And the people ^abelieved^•: and when they heard that the LORD had ^bvisited^• the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their ^caffliction, then they ^dbowed^• their heads and worshipped.