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.
5 The Lord said, "When they see this miraculous sign, they will believe that I appeared to you. I am the God of their fathers. I am the God of Abraham. I am the God of Isaac. And I am the God of Jacob."