1 Moses answered, "What if the elders of Israel won't believe me? What if they won't listen to me? Suppose they say, 'The Lord didn't appear to you.' Then what should I do?"
2 The Lord said to him, "What do you have in your hand?" "A wooden staff," he said.
3 The Lord said, "Throw it on the ground." So Moses threw it on the ground. It turned into a snake. He ran away from it.
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Reach your hand out. Take the snake by the tail." So he reached out and grabbed hold of the snake. It turned back into a staff in his hand.