Moses’ Staff
Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’” Exo 3:18Exo 4:31Act 7:25Exo 2:14Exo 6:30Jer 1:6Ezk 3:14
And the LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand?” Exo 4:17Exo 4:20Isa 11:4Psa 110:2Gen 30:37Lev 27:32Mic 7:14
“A staff,” he replied.
“Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, 1 and he ran from it. Amo 5:19Exo 4:17Exo 7:10-15
“Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand. Act 28:3-6Gen 22:1-2Jhn 2:5Luk 10:19Mrk 16:18Psa 91:13 “This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.” Exo 19:9Exo 3:15Gen 12:7Gen 18:1Gen 26:2Gen 48:3Exo 4:31Jhn 11:42
Moses’ Hand
Furthermore, the LORD said to Moses, “Put your hand inside your cloak. 2” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, 3 white as snow. 2Ki 5:27Num 12:10
“Put your hand back inside your cloak,” said the LORD. 2Ki 5:14Deu 32:39Mat 8:3Num 12:13-15
So Moses put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his skin.
And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second. Deu 32:39Exo 4:30-31Isa 28:102Ki 5:7Job 5:18Jhn 12:37 But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.” Exo 1:22Exo 7:19-25Mat 7:2
The Appointment of Aaron
“Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.” Jer 1:6Exo 6:12Act 7:222Co 11:6Exo 4:12Co 10:10Job 12:21Co 2:1-4
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Amo 3:6Ezk 3:26-27Isa 6:7Psa 146:8Psa 94:9Psa 51:15Jer 1:6Jer 1:9 Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.” Jer 1:9Luk 12:11-12Mat 10:19-20Luk 21:14-15Mrk 13:11Isa 50:4Eph 6:19Jhn 14:26
But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.” Exo 4:1Jon 1:3Exo 23:20Ezk 3:14-15Gen 48:16Jdg 2:1Jer 1:6Jer 20:9
Then 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 he is now on his way to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 1Ch 21:7Exo 4:27Mrk 14:13-151Ki 11:91Sa 10:1-71Th 3:6-72Co 2:132Co 7:6-7 You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do. Isa 51:16Deu 18:18Luk 21:15Num 23:12Num 23:16Num 23:5Isa 59:21Jer 1:9 He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him. Exo 7:1-2Jhn 10:34-35Psa 82:6Exo 18:19 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform signs with it.” Exo 4:21Co 1:27Exo 7:9-20
Moses Leaves for Egypt
Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro 4and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” Exo 3:11Sa 1:171Ti 6:1Act 15:36Act 16:36Gen 45:3Luk 7:50
“Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.” Mat 2:20Exo 2:15Exo 2:23 So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand. Exo 17:9Num 20:8-9Exo 18:3-4Exo 4:2Num 20:11Exo 4:17
The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden 5his heart so that he will not let the people go. Rom 9:18Exo 14:8Isa 63:17Jos 11:20Exo 7:13Exo 9:12Exo 9:35Exo 10:20
Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son, Hos 11:1Rom 9:4Heb 12:23Jer 31:9Deu 14:1Exo 19:5-6Isa 63:16Isa 64:8 and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’” Exo 11:5Exo 12:29Psa 105:36Psa 135:8Exo 5:1Exo 7:16Psa 78:51
Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses 6and was about to kill him. Gen 17:14Num 22:22-231Ch 21:16Exo 3:18Hos 13:8Lev 10:31Ki 13:24Gen 42:27 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. 7 “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. Jos 5:2-3Gen 17:142Sa 16:7
So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)
The People Believe Moses and Aaron
Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. Exo 3:11Ki 19:8Act 10:20Act 10:5-6Ecc 4:9Exo 19:3Exo 20:18Exo 24:15-17 And Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and all the signs He had commanded him to perform. Exo 4:15-16Exo 4:8-9Jon 3:2Mat 21:29
Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites, Exo 3:16Exo 24:1Exo 24:11 and Aaron relayed everything the LORD had said to Moses. Exo 4:16
And Moses performed the signs before the people, and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped. Exo 3:18Exo 12:27Exo 2:25Psa 106:12-13Exo 3:16Exo 3:7Gen 24:26Luk 8:13