When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his skin disease? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.”
Exodus 4:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “If they will not believe you or heed the first sign, they may believe the second sign. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Then God said] If they will not believe you or heed the voice or the testimony of the first sign, they may believe the voice or the witness of the second sign. American Standard Version (1901) And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. Common English Bible “If they won’t believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second sign. Catholic Public Domain Version "If they will not believe you," he said, "and will not listen to the sermon of the first sign, then they will believe the word of the subsequent sign. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign. |
When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his skin disease? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.”
Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him and all the signs with which he had charged him.
Then God said, “Put your hand back into your cloak”—so he put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored like the rest of his body—
If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to you, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
Although he had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in him.
See now that I, even I, am he; there is no god besides me. I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and no one can deliver from my hand.
Then he said to him, “If now I have found favor with you, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.