You shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs [the miracles which prove I sent you].”

“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Work a miracle [to prove your authority],’ then you say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, so that it may become a serpent.’”

Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not.