Exodus 4:1-5
Moses Given Powers
1 Then Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or (A)listen (a)to what I say? For they may say, ‘(B)The Lord has not appeared to you.’”
2 The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “(C)A staff.”
3 Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and (D)it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.
4 But the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his (b)hand—
5 “that (E)they may believe that (F)the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”