Exodus 4:1-3

Tree of Life Version

4 Then Moses said, “But look, they will not believe me or listen to my voice. They will say, ‘Adonai has not appeared to you.’”

²So Adonai said to him, “What is that in your hand?”

“A staff,” he said.

³Then He said, “Cast it on the ground.” When he cast it to the ground, it became a serpent, so Moses fled from before it.

Exodus 4:1-3

New International Version

4 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen^(A) to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

²Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”

“A staff,”^(B) he replied.

³The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.”

Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake,^(C) and he ran from it.

Tree of Life Version (TLV)

New International Version (NIV)