So I responded to you, “Do not be terrified of them!

But Joseph told them, “It is just as I said to you: You are spies!

I also said to you at that time, “I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.

Then I said to you, “You have come to the Amorite hill country which the Lord our God is about to give us.

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundations of this temple, and his hands will complete it.” Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me to you.

Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Do a miracle,’ and you say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ it will become a snake.”