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  Moses and Aaron Before Pharoah 1 Then the  Lord  said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.  2 You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country.  3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,  4 he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites.   5 And the Egyptians will know that I am the  Lord  when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it. ” 6 Moses and Aaron did just as the  Lord  commanded them.  7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh. 8 The  Lord  said to Moses and Aaron,  9 “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff an...

God Promises Deliverance 1 Then the  Lord  said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.” 2 God also said to Moses, “I am the  Lord .  3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,  but by my name the  Lord  I did not make myself fully known to them.  4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.  5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant. 6 “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the  Lord , and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.  7 I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you w...

  Signs for Moses 1 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The  Lord  did not appear to you’?” 2 Then the  Lord  said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. 3 The  Lord  said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it.  4 Then the  Lord  said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.  5 “This,” said the  Lord , “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.” 6 Then the  Lord  said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous —it had become as white as snow. 7 “Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand b...

  Moses and the Burning Bush 1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.  2 There the angel of the  Lord  appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.  3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” 4 When the  Lord  saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” 5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”  6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father,  the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. 7 The  Lord  said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people...

  The Birth of Moses 1 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman,  2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.  3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket  for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.  4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. 5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it.  6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said. 7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” 8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.  9 Pharao...