Moses' First Objection: The Signs of Authority

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Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee.

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Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.

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And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it.

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And the Lord said: Put out thy hand, and take it by the tail. He put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod.

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That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee.

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And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow.

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And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh.

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If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign.

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But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest out of the river, shall be turned into blood.

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