God said then to him:  What is that thou holdest in thine hand?  He answered:  A rod.  Our Lord said:  Cast it on the ground.  He threw it down and it turned into a serpent, whereof Moses was afeard and would have fled.  Our Lord said to him:  Put forth thy hand and hold him by the tail; he stretched forth his hand and held him, and it turned again into a rod.  To this, that they believe thee, that I have appeared to thee.  And yet our Lord said to him:  Put thy hand into thy bosom, which, when he hath put in, and drawn out again, it was like a leper’s hand.  Our Lord bade him to withdraw it into his bosom again, and he drew it out and it was then like that other flesh.  If they hear not thee, and believe by the first sign and token, they shall believe thee by the second.  If they believe none of the two ne hear thy voice, then take water of the river and pour on the dry ground, and whatsoever thou takest and drawest shall turn into blood.  Then Moses said:  I pray the Lord send some other, for I am not eloquent, but have a letting in my speech.  Our Lord said to him:  Who made the mouth of a man, or who hath made a man dumb or deaf, seeing or blind, not I?  Go, therefore, I shall be in thy mouth and shall teach thee what thou shalt say.  Then said Moses:  I beseech thee Lord, said he, send some other whom thou wilt.  Our Lord was wroth on Moses and said:  Aaron thy brother deacon, I know that he is eloquent, lo! he shall come and meet with thee, and seeing thee he shall be glad in his heart.  Speak thou to him and put my words in his mouth, and I shall be in thy mouth and in his mouth, and I shall show to you what ye ought to do, and he shall speak for the people, and shall be thy mouth, and thou shalt be in such things as pertain to God.  Take with thee this rod in thine hand, by which thou shalt do signs and marvels.  Then Moses went to Jethro his wife’s father, and said to him, I shall go and return to my brethren into Egypt, and see if they yet live.  To whom Jethro said:  Go in God’s name and place.  Then said our Lord to Moses:  Go and return into Egypt, all they be now dead that sought for to slay thee.  Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them upon an ass and returned in to Egypt, bearing the rod of God in his hand.  Then our Lord said to Aaron:  Go against Moses and meet with him in desert; which went for to meet with him unto the mount of God, and there kissed him.

And Moses told unto Aaron all that our Lord had said to him for which he sent him, and all the tokens and signs that he bade him do.  They came both together and gathered and assembled all the seniors and aged men of the children of Israel.  And Aaron told to them all that God had said to Moses, and made the signs and tokens tofore the people and the people believed it.  They heard well that our Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had beholden the affliction of them, wherefore they fell down low to the ground and worshipped our Lord.