Exodus 4:8

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“If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.

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  • Exod 4:30-31 : 30 Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people, 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.
  • Deut 32:39 : 39 The Vindication of the Lord“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the LORD,“and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.
  • 2 Kgs 5:7 : 7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said,“Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!”
  • Job 5:18 : 18 For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.
  • Isa 28:10 : 10 Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.
  • John 12:37 : 37 The Outcome of Jesus’ Public Ministry Foretold Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 9 And 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.”

  • Exod 4:4-7
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    4 But the LORD said to Moses,“Put out your hand and grab it by the tail”– so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand–

    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.”

    6 The LORD also said to him,“Put your hand into your robe.” So he put his hand into his robe, and when he brought it out– there was his hand, leprous like snow!

    7 He said,“Put your hand back into your robe.” So he put his hand back into his robe, and when he brought it out from his robe– there it was, restored like the rest of his skin!

  • Exod 4:1-2
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    1 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’?”

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

  • 48 So Jesus said to him,“Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!”

  • 17 You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”

  • Deut 13:1-2
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    70%

    1 Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder,

    2 and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely,“Let us follow other gods”– gods whom you have not previously known–“and let us serve them.”

  • 7 Isaiah replied,“This is your sign from the LORD confirming that the LORD will do what he has said:

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    37 The Outcome of Jesus’ Public Ministry Foretold Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

    38 so that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled. He said,“Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

    39 For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

  • 11 The 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?

  • 31 He replied to him,‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

  • 30 So they said to him,“Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

  • 15 Curses as Reversal of Blessings“But if you ignore the LORD your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

  • 9 “When Pharaoh says to you,‘Do a miracle,’ and you say to Aaron,‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ it will become a snake.”

  • 30 Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people,

  • Exod 7:3-4
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    3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

    4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

  • 10 But if they say,‘Come up against us,’ we will go up. For in that case the LORD has given them into our hand– it will be a sign to us.”

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

  • 15 But if you don’t obey the LORD and rebel against what the LORD says, the hand of the LORD will be against both you and your king.

  • 38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

  • 19 The magicians said to Pharaoh,“It is the finger of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

  • 22 So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

  • 34 Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

  • 27 Then the LORD said to me,“When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.

  • 2 For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

  • 17 These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;

  • 47 But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?”

  • 11 He did all the signs and wonders the LORD had sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, all his servants, and the whole land,

  • 33 When all this comes true– and it certainly will– then they will know that a prophet was among them.”

  • 14 The Consequences of Disobedience“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments–

  • 32 Despite all this, they continued to sin, and did not trust him to do amazing things.

  • 20 Then you must recall the LORD’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.

  • 46 These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

  • 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

  • 3 Your eyes have seen the great judgments, those signs and mighty wonders.

  • 2 Kgs 20:8-9
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    8 Hezekiah had said to Isaiah,“What is the confirming sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the LORD’s temple the day after tomorrow?”

    9 Isaiah replied,“This is your sign from the LORD confirming that the LORD will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?”

  • 32 However, through all this you did not have confidence in the LORD your God,

  • 20 And now, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time, you will be silent, unable to speak, until the day these things take place.”

  • 21 The 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.