1 Then Moses replied, "But what if they don’t believe me or pay attention to me? They might say to me, ‘The Lord didn’t appear to you!’"
2 The Lord said to him, "What’s that in your hand?"Moses replied, "A shepherd’s rod."
3 The Lord said, "Throw it down on the ground." So Moses threw it on the ground, and it turned into a snake. Moses jumped back from it.
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Reach out and grab the snake by the tail." So Moses reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a rod in his hand.
5 "Do this so that they will believe that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, Abraham’s God, Isaac’s God, and Jacob’s God has in fact appeared to you."
6 Again, the Lord said to Moses, "Put your hand inside your coat." So Moses put his hand inside his coat. When he took his hand out, his hand had a skin disease flaky like snow.