Exodus 4:1

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The Source of Sufficiency Moses answered again,“And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say,‘The LORD has not appeared to you’?”

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 3:18 : 18 “The elders will listen to you, and then you and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt and tell him,‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
  • Exod 4:31 : 31 and the people believed. When they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.
  • Exod 6:30 : 30 But Moses said before the LORD,“Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”
  • Jer 1:6 : 6 I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”
  • Ezek 3:14 : 14 A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the LORD rested powerfully on me.
  • Acts 7:25 : 25 He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.
  • Exod 2:14 : 14 The man replied,“Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking,“Surely what I did has become known.”

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    2The LORD said to him,“What is that in your hand?” He said,“A staff.”

    3The LORD said,“Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.

  • Num 14:11
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    11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • Exod 4:8-10
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    8“If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.

    9And if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to you, then take some water from the Nile and pour it out on the dry ground. The water you take out of the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

    10Then Moses said to the LORD,“O my Lord, I am not an eloquent man, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

  • Exod 6:30
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    30But Moses said before the LORD,“Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

  • Num 14:13-14
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    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

    14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among this people, that you, LORD, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

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    31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

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    11Moses said to God,“Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

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    9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

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    9The LORD said to Moses,“I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.

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    5“that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

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    4When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said,“Moses, Moses!” And Moses said,“Here I am.”

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    12But Moses replied to the LORD,“If the Israelites did not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with difficulty?”

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    4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”

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    15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

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    41But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!

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    13Moses said to God,“If I go to the Israelites and tell them,‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me,‘What is his name?’– what should I say to them?”

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    23And the LORD said to Moses,“Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you will see whether my word to you will come true or not!”

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    28Then Moses said,“This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.

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    9The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

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    11and the LORD spoke to Moses:

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    12The Lord’s Judgment Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,“Because you did not trust me enough to show me as holy before the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.”

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    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

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    21The Service of the Gershonites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

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    12Moses said to the LORD,“See, you have been saying to me,‘Bring this people up,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said,‘I know you by name, and also you have found favor in my sight.’

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    9Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

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    7Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

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    14Then the LORD became angry with Moses, and he said,“What about your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak very well. Moreover, he is coming to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

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    3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

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    2They said,“Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard it.

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    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

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    8The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

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    16Tell him,‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say,“Release my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness!” But until now you have not listened.

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    21The LORD said to Moses,“When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

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    2God spoke to Moses and said to him,“I am the LORD.

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