The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”

He said, “Tomorrow.” And Moses said, “It will be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

The Lord said to Moses,

And the Lord said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

And Moses said, “Show me your glory.”

When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”

God said to Moses, “I am that I am.” And he said, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

But Moses said, “O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!”

God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

The Lord said, “Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock.

He said to his people, “Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked, “Why have you come home so early today?”

The Lord said, “Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.

Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

But Pharaoh replied, “You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

So the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.