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。
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Listen [carefully]. [Just like I enabled prophet to speak my messages], I will cause the king [to consider that] you are like a god, and that Aaron is like a 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 must tell everything I command you [to tell to your older] brother Aaron, and he will tell that to the king. He must tell the king to let the Israeli people leave 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 make the king stubborn [IDM]. As a result, even though I perform many kinds of (miracles/terrifying things) [DOU] [here] in 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。
the king will not pay any attention to what you say. Then I will punish [MTY] the people of Egypt [MTY] very severely [MTY], and I will lead/bring the tribes of the Israeli people out 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。」
Then, when I show my great power [MTY] to the Egyptian people and bring the Israeli people out from among them, they will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].”
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。
Aaron and Moses/I did what Yahweh told them/us to do. They/We [went and spoke to the king].
7 當他們去與法朗會談的時候，梅瑟八十歲，亞郎八十三歲。
At that time, Moses/I was 80 years old, and Aaron was 83 years old.
8 上主對梅瑟和亞郎說：「
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
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。」
“If the king says to you, ‘Prove [that God sent] you by performing a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Throw your stick down in front of the king, in order that it may become a snake.’”
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 Aaron and Moses/I went to the king and did what Yahweh had commanded [them/us to do]. Aaron threw his stick down in front of the king and his officials, and it became a snake.
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：
Then the king summoned his sorcerers and men who performed magic. They did the same thing, using their magic.
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。
They all threw down their sticks, and they became snakes. But Aaron’s stick, [which had become a snake], swallowed up all their sticks!
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
But the king continued to be stubborn [IDM], just as Yahweh had predicted, and he would not pay attention to [what Aaron and Moses/I said].
14 上主對梅瑟說：「法朗硬了心，拒絕釋放百姓。
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “The king is very stubborn [IDM]. He refuses to allow [my] people to 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。
So [tomorrow] morning, go to him as he is going down to the [Nile] River [to bathe]. Wait for him at the riverbank. [When he comes out of the water, show] him the stick, the one which became 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。
Say to him, ‘Yahweh God, the one [we] Hebrews [worship], sent me to you to tell you to let my people go, in order that they may worship him in the desert. [We told you that], but you have not paid any attention to it.
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。
[So now] Yahweh says this: “This is the way you will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do]. Watch this: I am going to strike the water that is in the Nile [River] with the stick that is in my hand. [When I do that], the water will become blood (OR, [red like] blood [MTY]).
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。」
Then the fish in the Nile [River] will die, and the [water in] the river will stink, and the Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the Nile River.”’”
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。」
Yahweh said to Moses/me, “[When you are talking to the king], say to Aaron, ‘Hold your stick out [as though you were holding it] over the water in Egypt—over the rivers, the canals, the ponds, and over the pools of water, in order that [all of it] may become [red like] blood.’ When Aaron does that, there will be blood throughout Egypt, even in wooden jars and in stone jars.”
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；
So Aaron and Moses/I did what Yahweh commanded. As the king and his officials were watching, Aaron lifted up his stick and then struck the water in the Nile [River] with it. And all the water in the river turned [red like] 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。
Then all the fish died. And the water stank, with the result that the Egyptians could not drink water from the river. Everywhere in Egypt [the water] became [red like] blood.
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 men who performed magic did the same thing using their magic. So the king remained stubborn [IDM], and he would not pay attention to what Aaron and Moses/I said, just as Yahweh had predicted.
23 法朗轉身回到宮中，沒有把事放在心上。
The king turned and went back to his palace, and he did not think any more about it [IDM].
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
The Egyptians [HYP] dug [into the ground] near the Nile [River] to get 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，
(One week/Seven days) passed after Yahweh caused the water in the Nile [River to become red like blood].
