Exo 4:1-5 | NASB1995 | STEP | Then Moses said , “ What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say ? For they may say , ‘ The Lord has not appeared to you.’”

Exodus 4:1-5

1 Then Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or ^alisten ^{▼▼ Lit to my voice}to what I say? For they may say, ‘ ^cThe Lord has not appeared to you.’” 2 The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, ^d“A staff.” 3 Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and ^eit became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. 4 But the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”— so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his ^{▼▼ Lit palm}hand— 5 “that ^gthey may believe that ^hthe Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”