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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Exodus 4 GWT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GWT</a> > Exodus 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/3.htm" title="Exodus 3">◄</a> Exodus 4 <a href="../exodus/5.htm" title="Exodus 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">GOD'S WORD® Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>"They will never believe me or listen to me!" Moses protested. "They will say, 'The LORD didn't appear to you.'" <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then the LORD asked him, "What's that in your hand?" He answered, "A shepherd's staff." <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The LORD said, "Throw it on the ground." When Moses threw it on the ground, it became a snake, and he ran away from it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses, "Reach out and grab the snake by its tail." He reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a staff as he held it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>[The LORD explained,] "This is to convince the people that the LORD God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, appeared to you."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The LORD said to him, "Put your hand inside your shirt." So Moses did this, and when he took his hand out, it had a skin disease. It looked as [flaky as] snow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>"Now put your hand back inside your shirt," the LORD said. Moses put it back, and when he took it out this time, it was healthy again like the rest of his body. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>[Then the LORD said,] "If they won't believe you or pay attention to the first miraculous sign, they may believe the second. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But if they won't believe these two miraculous signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile River and pour it on the ground. The water you take from the Nile will turn into blood on the ground."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Moses said to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I'm not a good speaker. I've never been a good speaker, and I'm not now, even though you've spoken to me. I speak slowly, and I become tongue-tied easily." <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The LORD asked him, "Who gave humans their mouths? Who makes humans unable to talk or hear? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? It is I, the LORD! <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now go, and I will help you speak and will teach you what to say." <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But Moses said, "Please, Lord, send someone else."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the LORD became angry with Moses and asked, "What about your brother Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He's already on his way to meet you, and he will be very glad to see you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You will speak to him and tell him what to say. I will help both of you speak, and I will teach you both what to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Aaron will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and you will be like God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Take that shepherd's staff with you, and use it to do the miraculous signs."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro. Moses said to him, "Please let me go back to my own people in Egypt. I would like to see if they're still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "You may go." <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Now, the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, because all the men who wanted to kill you are dead." <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and started out for Egypt. He also brought with him the staff God had told him to take.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The LORD said to Moses, "When you get back to Egypt, see that you show Pharaoh all the amazing things that I have given you the power to do. But I will make him stubborn so that he will not let the people go. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then tell Pharaoh, 'This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I told you to let my son go so that he may worship me. But you refused to let him go. So now I'm going to kill your firstborn son.'"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Along the way they stopped for the night. The LORD met Moses and tried to kill him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet [with it]. She said, "You are a bridegroom of blood to me!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>So the LORD let him alone. It was because of the circumcision that she said at that time, "You are a bridegroom of blood!"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Meanwhile, the LORD had told Aaron to meet Moses in the desert. When Aaron met Moses at the mountain of God, he kissed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say and all the miraculous signs the LORD had commanded him to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then Moses and Aaron went [to Egypt] and assembled all the leaders of the people of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to Moses. He also did the miraculous signs for the people, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and the people believed them. When they heard that the LORD was concerned about the people of Israel and that he had seen their misery, they knelt, bowing with their faces touching the ground.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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