1 "But what if they don’t believe me or listen to what I say?" Moses asked. "They could say, ‘The Lord didn’t appear to you.’"
2 The Lord asked him, "What are you holding in your hand?"
"A walking stick," Moses replied.
3 "Throw it on the ground," he told Moses. So Moses did. It turned into a snake and Moses ran away from it.
4 "Reach out and grab hold of it by its tail," the Lord told Moses. Moses did so and it turned back into a walking stick in his hand.
5 "You are to do this4:5. "You are to do this": supplied for clarity. so that they will believe that I the Lord did appear to you, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."