9. But if they will not believe also these two signs or listen to your voice, then you shall take water from the river and pour it on the dry land, and the water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”
10. Then Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant. But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
11. The Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who made the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord?
12. Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you must say.”
13. He said, “O my Lord, send, I pray, by the hand of whomever else You will send.”
14. The anger of the Lord was inflamed against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, he comes out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
15. You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you must do.
16. What’s more, he will be your spokesman to the people, and he will be as a mouth for you, and you will be as God to him.
17. You must take this rod in your hand, with which you will perform the signs.”
18. Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive.”And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19. The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt, for all the men are dead who sought your life.”
20. Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
21. The Lord said to Moses, “When you go to return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart, so that he shall not let the people go.