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Then Yahweh asked him, “What’s that in your hand?”

He answered, “A shepherd’s staff.”

Yahweh said, “Throw it on the ground.”

When Moses threw it on the ground, it became a snake, and he ran away from it.

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Reach out and grab the snake by its tail.” He reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a staff as he held it.

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Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”

“A staff,”(A) he replied.

The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.”

Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake,(B) and he ran from it. Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

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