5. “This is so that they may believe Adonai, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—has appeared to you.”
6. Adonai also said to him, “Now put your hand within your cloak.” So he put his hand inside, and when he took it out, his hand had tza'arat—white as snow.
7. Then He said, “Put your hand back into your cloak.” So he put his hand back in, and when he took it out it was restored again as the rest of his skin.
8. Then He said, “If they do not believe you, or listen to the voice of the first sign, they will believe the message of the latter sign.
9. But if they do not believe even these two signs nor listen to your voice, you are to take the water of the river and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the ground.”
10. But Moses said to Adonai, “Adonai, I am not a man of words—not yesterday, nor the day before, nor since You have spoken to Your servant—because I have a slow mouth and a heavy tongue.”
11. So Adonai said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes a man mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, Adonai?
12. Now go! I will be with your mouth and teach you what to say.”
13. But he said, “Please, please, send it by another hand.”
14. Then the anger of Adonai was kindled against Moses, so He said, “In fact, Aaron the Levite is your brother. I know that he can speak well. Moreover, he is on his way to meet you! When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
15. You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth and with his, and teach you what to do.
16. He will be your spokesman to the people, so that he may act as a mouthpiece for you, and it will be as if you were as God for him.
17. Now then, you must take this staff in your hand to do the signs.”
18. So Moses went, returned to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me go, so I may return to my kinsmen who are in Egypt and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19. Then Adonai said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt, for all the men that sought your life are dead.”
20. So Moses took his wife and his sons, set them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took the staff of God in his hand.