[unspec A] 1 MOyses aunswered, and said: See, they wyll not beleue me, nor har∣ken vnto my voyce: but wyll saye, The Lorde hath not appeared vn∣to thee.
2 And the Lorde sayde vnto him: What is that [which is] in thine hande? He aun∣swered: a rodde.
3 And he sayde: Cast it on the grounde. And he cast it on the grounde, and it became a serpent: and Moyses fled frō the syght of it.
4 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Put foorth thy hande, and take it by the tayle. And therefore he put foorth his hande, and caught it: and it became a rodde in his hande.
5 By this thing shall they beleue, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isahac, & the God of Iacob hath appeared vnto thee.
6 And the Lorde sayde furthermore vn∣to hym: Thrust thyne hande into thy bosome. And he thruste his hande into his bosome: and when he toke it out a∣gayne, beholde his hande was leprous, euen as snowe.
7 And he sayde: Put thine hande into [unspec B] thy bosome againe. And he put his hand into his bosome agayne: and plucked it out of his bosome, and behold, it was turned agayne as his [other] fleshe.
8 Therfore yf they wyll not beleue thee, neither heare ye voyce of the first signes, yet wyll they beleue for the voyce of the seconde signes.
9 But & if they wyl not beleue these two signes, neither hearken vnto thy voyce: thou shalt take of the water of the riuer and powre it vpon the drye lande, and the water which thou takest out of the riuer shalbe [turned] into blood vpon the drye lande.
10 Moyses sayd vnto the Lorde: Oh my Lord, I am neither yesterday nor yer yesterday a man eloquēt, neither sence thou hast spoken vnto thy seruaunt: but I am slowe mouthed, & slowe tounged.
11 And the Lorde sayd vnto hym: who hath made mans mouth? or who ma∣keth the dumbe, or deafe, the seyng, or the blynde? Haue not I the Lorde?
12 And nowe go, and I wyll be with thy mouth, and teache thee what thou shalt say.
13 He said: oh my Lorde, sende I pray thee, by the hande of hym whom thou wylt sende.
14 And the Lorde was angry with Moyses, and sayde: Do not I knowe Aaron thy brother the Leuite, that he can speake? For lo, he commeth foorth [unspec C] to meete thee: and when he seeth thee, he wyll be glad in his heart.
15 Therfore thou shalt speake vnto him, and put these wordes in his mouth, and I wilbe with thy mouth, and with his mouth: and wyll teache you what you ought to do.
16 And he shalbe thy spokesman vnto the people, and he shalbe [euen] he shal∣be to thee in steade of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him, in steade of God.
17 And thou shalt take this rodde in thy hande, wherewith thou shalt do mi∣racles.
18 Therfore Moyses went and returned to Iethro his father in law againe, and said vnto him: Let me go I pray thee nowe, and turne agayne vnto my bre∣thren which are in Egypt, and see whe∣ther they be yet aliue. And Iethro said to Moyses: go in peace.
19 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses in Madian, Go and returne agayne into Egypt: for all the men are dead whiche went about to kill thee.
20 And Moyses toke his wyfe, and his sonnes, and put them on an asse, and went agayne to Egypt: And Moyses toke the rodde of God in his hande.
21 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: When thou art entred and come into Egypt agayne, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharao whiche I haue put in thy hand: but I wyll hold his heart, & he shal not let the people go.
22 And thou shalt saye vnto Pharao: [unspec D] Thus sayeth the Lorde, Israel is my sonne [euen] my first borne sonne.
23 And I sayde vnto thee, that thou let my sonne go, that he may serue me. And if thou refuse to let him go: beholde, I do slay thy sonne [euen] thy first borne.
24 And it came to passe by the way in the Inne that the Lorde met hym, and woulde haue kylled hym.
25 And Sephora toke a stone, and cut away the foreskin of her sonne, and cast it at his feete, and sayd: a blooddy hus∣bande art thou vnto me.
26 Then he let him go, and she sayde: