出埃及記 7
1 上主向梅瑟說：「看，我使你在法朗前像神一樣，你的哥哥亞郎將作你的代言人。
The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
2 凡我吩咐你的一切，你要告訴你的哥哥亞郎，要他對法朗講話，叫他放以色列子民離開他的國境。
You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.
3 我卻要使法朗心硬，為此在埃及國要增多我的奇蹟和異事。
But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
4 因法朗布聽從你們，我要向埃及伸手，藉嚴厲的懲罰，將我的軍隊，我的百姓以色列子民，從埃及國領出來。
Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
5 當我向埃及人伸手，將以色列子民從埃及人中間領出來的時候，他們要承認我是上主。」
And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”
6 梅瑟和亞郎就受命行事；上主怎樣吩咐他們，他們就怎樣行了。
So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.
7 當他們去與法朗會談的時候，梅瑟八十歲，亞郎八十三歲。
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8 上主對梅瑟和亞郎說：「
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
9 如果法朗要求你們說：你們顯個奇蹟，給你們作證罷! 你就吩咐亞郎說：將你的棍杖扔在法朗的面前，棍杖就會變成一條蛇。」
“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”
10 梅瑟和亞郎就去見法朗，照上主的吩咐做了：亞郎將棍杖扔在法朗和他的臣僕面前，棍杖就變成了一條蛇。
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.
11 法朗將他的智者和術士召來，這些埃及的巫士也用他們的巫術作了同樣的事：
But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.
12 他們每人扔下自己的棍杖，也都變成了蛇，但亞郎的棍杖卻吞了他們的棍杖。
Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.
13 法朗仍然心硬，不肯聽他們的話，正如上主所說。第一災、水變血
Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
14 上主對梅瑟說：「法朗硬了心，拒絕釋放百姓。
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.
15 明天早晨你去見法朗。他去水邊時候，你要站在尼羅河邊迎住他；手中拿著那根變過蛇的棍杖。
Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
16 你對他說：上主，希伯來人的天主打發我來見你說：你應放我的百姓到曠野中去崇拜我；彈道現在你仍沒有聽從。
Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not listened until now.
17 上主這樣說：看，我要用我手中拿的棍杖擊打河水，水就變成血，如此你必承認，我是上主。
This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD. Behold, with the staff in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will turn to blood.
18 河中的魚都要死，河水都要腥臭，埃及人不能再喝河中的水。」
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
19 上主對梅瑟說：「你向亞郎說：拿起你的棍杖，將手伸在埃及的水上，即伸在河、溝渠、池沼和一切水塘之上，水都要變成血；如此埃及全國，連木器石器中的水野都要變成血。」
And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.”
20 梅瑟和亞郎就照了上主的吩咐作了：亞郎在法朗和他臣僕的面前，舉起棍杖一打河水，所有的河水變成了血；
Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron raised the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was turned to blood.
21 河中的魚都死了，河水都腥臭不堪，埃及人不能再喝河中的水；埃及遍地是血。
The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
22 埃及的巫士用他們的巫術也行了同樣的事，因此法朗仍舊心硬，不肯聽信梅瑟和亞郎，正像上主所說的。
But the magicians of Egypt did the same things by their magic arts. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
23 法朗轉身回到宮中，沒有把事放在心上。
Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.
24 因為全埃及的人不能喝河中的水，便在河的附近掘水喝。第二災、蝦蟆
So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.
25 上主擊打河水後，滿了七天，
And seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.
