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This is my eternal name,
my name to remember for all generations.
16 “Now go and call together all the elders of Israel. Tell them, ‘Yahweh, the
God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared
to me. He told me, “I have been watching closely, and I see how the Egyptians
are treating you.
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I have promised to rescue you
from your oppression in Egypt.
I will lead you to
a land f lowing with milk and honey —
the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and
Jebusites now live.” ’
18 “The elders of Israel will accept your message. Then you and the elders
must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews,
has met with us. So please let us take a threeday journey into the wilderness
to offer sacrifices to the Lord, our God.’
19 “But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand
forces him. 20 So I will raise my hand and strike the Egyptians, performing
all kinds of miracles among them. Then at last he will let you go. 21 And I will
cause the Egyptians to look favorably on you. They will give you gifts when
you go so you will not leave emptyhanded. 22 Every Israelite woman will ask
for articles of silver and gold and fine clothing from her Egyptian neighbors
and from the foreign women in their houses. You will dress your sons and
daughters with these, stripping the Egyptians of their wealth.”
Signs of the Lord’s Power
But Moses protested again, “What if they won’t believe me or listen to
me? What if they say, ‘The Lord never appeared to you’?”
2 Then the Lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?”
“A shepherd’s staff,” Moses replied.
3 “Throw it down on the ground,” the Lord told him.
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threw down the staff,
it turned into a snake!
So Moses
and
Moses jumped back.
4 Then the Lord told him, “Reach out and grab its tail.” So Moses reached
out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a shepherd’s staff in his hand.
5 “Perform this sign,” the Lord told him. “Then they will believe that the
Lord, the God of their ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob—really has appeared to you.”
6 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.” So
Moses put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out again, his hand
was white as snow with a severe skin disease. 7 “Now put your hand back into
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