1. Then Moses answered the Lord, “But suppose the Israelites do not believe me and will not listen to what I say. What shall I do if they say that you did not appear to me?”
2. So the Lord asked him, “What are you holding?”“A stick,” he answered.
3. The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.” When Moses threw it down, it turned into a snake, and he ran away from it.
4. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Bend down and pick it up by the tail.” So Moses bent down and caught it, and it became a stick again.
5. The Lord said, “Do this to prove to the Israelites that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to you.”
6. The Lord spoke to Moses again, “Put your hand inside your robe.” Moses obeyed; and when he took his hand out, it was diseased, covered with white spots, like snow.
25-26. Then Zipporah, his wife, took a sharp stone, cut off the foreskin of her son, and touched Moses' feet with it. Because of the rite of circumcision she said to Moses, “You are a husband of blood to me.” And so the Lord spared Moses' life.