Exodus 4:1-9
Moses Given Powerful Signs
1Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” 2The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, a“A staff.” 3And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it. 4But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand— 5“that they may bbelieve that the Lord, cthe God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.” 6Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” ▼▼Hebrew into your bosom; also verse 7
And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was eleprous ▼▼Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
like snow. 7Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, git was restored like the rest of his flesh. 8“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign. 9If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile hwill become blood on the dry ground.” Judges 6:14
14And the Lord ▼ turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; jdo not I send you?”Judges 6:17-20
17And he said to him, k“If now I have found favor in your eyes, then lshow me a sign that it is you who speak with me. 18Please mdo not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.”19So Gideon went into his house nand prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah ▼
▼An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them. 20And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them pon this rock, and qpour the broth over them.” And he did so. 2 Kings 20:9
9And Isaiah said, “This shall be rthe sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”Psalms 103:13-14
13As sa father shows compassion to his children,so the Lord shows compassion tto those who fear him.
14For he knows our frame; ▼
▼Or knows how we are formed
he vremembers that we are dust.
Matthew 16:1
The Pharisees and Sadducees Demand Signs
1 wAnd the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and xto test him ythey asked him to show them za sign from heaven.
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