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"But I know that the Pharaoh will not let you go. Only a great power will force him to let you go,

Then Moses said to God, "But the Israelites will not believe me when I tell them that you sent me. They will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.'"

But the Lord said to Moses, "What is that you have in your hand?" Moses answered, "It is my walking stick."

but the Lord said to him, "Reach out and grab the snake by its tail." When Moses reached out and caught the snake's tail, the snake became a walking stick again.

Then Moses said to the Lord , "But, Lord, I am telling you, I am not a good speaker. I have never been able to speak well. And that hasn't changed since you started talking to me. I am still not a good speaker. You know that I speak slowly and don't use the best words."

But Moses said, "My Lord, I beg you to send someone else, not me."

While Moses was traveling back to Egypt, the Lord spoke to him, "When you talk to Pharaoh remember to show him all the miracles that I have given you the power to do. But I will cause Pharaoh to be very stubborn. He will not let the people go.

But Zipporah took a flint knife and circumcised her son. She took the skin and touched his feet. Then she said to Moses, "You are a bridegroom of blood to me."

But Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord ? Why should I obey him? Why should I let Israel go? I don't even know who this Lord is, so I refuse to let Israel go."

But Pharaoh said to them, "Moses and Aaron, you are bothering the workers. Let them do their work. Go back to your own work!

He said, "You have always given the people straw to use to make bricks. But now, tell them they have to go and find their own straw to make bricks.

But they must still make the same number of bricks as they did before. They have gotten lazy. That is why they are asking me to let them go. They don't have enough work to do. That is why they asked me to let them make sacrifices to their God.

You must go and get the straw for yourselves. So go and find straw, but you must still make as many bricks as you made before."

You give us no straw, but you tell us to make as many bricks as before. And now our masters are beating us. Your people are wrong for doing this."

I went to Pharaoh and said what you told me to say. But since that time he has made the people suffer, and you have done nothing to help them!"

I made an agreement with them. I promised to give them the land of Canaan. They lived in that land, but it was not their own.

So Moses told this to the Israelites, but the people would not listen to him. They were working so hard that they were not patient with Moses.

But Moses answered, " Lord , the Israelites refuse to listen to me. So surely Pharaoh will also refuse to listen. I am a very bad speaker."

But the Lord talked with Moses and Aaron and commanded them to go and talk to the Israelites and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. He commanded them to lead the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

But Moses, standing there before the Lord , said, "You know me. I'm a very bad speaker. How will I make the king listen to me?"