Exodus 4 (NET)

Exodus 4:1¹Moses answered again, “And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you’?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:18Exod 4:31Acts 7:25Exod 2:14Exod 6:30Ezek 3:14Jer 1:6

Exodus 4:2²The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:17Exod 4:20Isa 11:4Ps 110:2Gen 30:37Lev 27:32Mic 7:14

Exodus 4:3³The Lord said, “Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:19Exod 4:17Exod 7:10-15

Exodus 4:4⁴But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and grab it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 28:3-6Gen 22:1-2John 2:5Luke 10:19Mark 16:18Ps 91:13

Exodus 4:5⁵“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:9Exod 3:15Gen 12:7Gen 18:1Gen 26:2Gen 48:3Exod 4:31John 11:422 Chr 20:20Acts 7:2

Exodus 4:6⁶The Lord also said to him, “Put your hand into your robe.” So he put his hand into his robe, and when he brought it out—there was his hand, leprous like snow!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:27Num 12:10

Exodus 4:7⁷He said, “Put your hand back into your robe.” So he put his hand back into his robe, and when he brought it out from his robe—there it was, restored like the rest of his skin!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:14Deut 32:39Matt 8:3Num 12:13-15

Exodus 4:8⁸“If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:39Exod 4:30-31Isa 28:102 Kgs 5:7Job 5:18

Exodus 4:9⁹And if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to you, then take some water from the Nile and pour it out on the dry ground. The water you take out of the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 1:22Exod 7:19-25Matt 7:2

Exodus 4:10¹⁰Then Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not an eloquent man, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 1:6Exod 6:12Acts 7:222 Cor 11:6Exod 4:12 Cor 10:10Job 12:21 Cor 2:1-4

Exodus 4:11¹¹The Lord said to him, “Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 3:6Ezek 3:26-27Ps 146:8Isa 6:7Ps 94:9Ps 51:15Jer 1:6Jer 1:9Ezek 33:22Gen 18:14

Exodus 4:12¹²So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 1:9Luke 12:11-12Matt 10:19-20Luke 21:14-15Mark 13:11Isa 50:4Eph 6:19John 14:26Luke 11:1Ps 25:4-5

Exodus 4:13¹³But Moses said, “O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:1Jonah 1:3Exod 23:20Ezek 3:14-15Gen 48:16Jer 1:6Jer 20:9John 6:29Jonah 1:6Judg 2:1

Exodus 4:14¹⁴Then the Lord became angry with Moses, and he said, “What about your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak very well. Moreover, he is coming to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 21:7Exod 4:27Mark 14:13-151 Kgs 11:91 Sam 10:1-71 Thess 3:6-72 Cor 2:132 Cor 7:6-72 Sam 6:7Acts 15:28

Exodus 4:15¹⁵“So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you must do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 51:16Deut 18:18Luke 21:15Num 23:12Num 23:16Num 23:5Isa 59:21Jer 1:92 Sam 14:3Exod 4:12

Exodus 4:16¹⁶He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 7:1-2John 10:34-35Ps 82:6Exod 18:19

Exodus 4:17¹⁷You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:21 Cor 1:27Exod 7:9-20

Exodus 4:18¹⁸So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:11 Sam 1:171 Tim 6:1Acts 15:36Acts 16:36Gen 45:3Luke 7:50

Exodus 4:19¹⁹The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 2:20Exod 2:15Exod 2:23

Exodus 4:20²⁰Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 17:9Num 20:8-9Exod 18:3-4Exod 4:2Num 20:11Exod 4:17

Exodus 4:21²¹The Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 9:18Exod 14:8Isa 63:17Josh 11:20Exod 7:13Exod 9:12Exod 9:35-10:1Exod 10:20Exod 3:20John 12:40

Exodus 4:22²²You must say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord has said, “Israel is my son, my firstborn,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 11:1Rom 9:4Heb 12:23Jer 31:9Deut 14:1Exod 19:5-6Isa 63:16Isa 64:82 Cor 6:18Jas 1:18

Exodus 4:23²³and I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 11:5Exod 12:29Ps 105:36Ps 135:8Exod 5:1Exod 7:16Ps 78:51

Exodus 4:24²⁴Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:14Num 22:22-231 Chr 21:16Exod 3:18Hos 13:8Lev 10:31 Kgs 13:24Gen 42:27

Exodus 4:25²⁵But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 5:2-3Gen 17:142 Sam 16:7

Exodus 4:26²⁶So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Exodus 4:27²⁷The Lord said to Aaron, “Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:11 Kgs 19:8Acts 10:20Acts 10:5-6Eccl 4:9Exod 19:3Exod 20:18Exod 24:15-17Exod 4:14-16Gen 29:11

Exodus 4:28²⁸Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him and all the signs that he had commanded him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:15-16Exod 4:8-9Jonah 3:2Matt 21:29

Exodus 4:29²⁹Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:16Exod 24:1Exod 24:11

Exodus 4:30³⁰Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:16

Exodus 4:31³¹and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:18Exod 12:27Exod 2:25Ps 106:12-13Exod 3:16Exod 3:7Gen 24:26Luke 8:131 Chr 29:20Exod 4:8-9