1 But Moses protested again, “What if they won’t believe me or listen to me? What if they say, ‘The lord never appeared to you’?”
2 Then the lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?”“A shepherd’s staff,” Moses replied.
3 “Throw it down on the ground,” the lord told him. So Moses threw down the staff, and it turned into a snake! Moses jumped back.
4 Then the lord told him, “Reach out and grab its tail.” So Moses reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a shepherd’s staff in his hand.