出埃及记 7
1 耶和华对摩西说：“我使你在法老面前代替 神，你的哥哥亚伦是替你说话的。
The Lord told Moses, “Look, I will make you seem like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
2 凡我所吩咐你的，你都要说。你的哥哥亚伦要对法老说，容以色列人出他的地。
You are to repeat everything that I tell you to say, and your brother Aaron must repeat it to Pharaoh so that he will let the Israelites leave his country.
3 我要使法老的心刚硬，也要在埃及地多行神迹奇事。
But I will give Pharaoh a stubborn attitude, and though I will perform many signs and wonders in Egypt, he won't listen to you.
4 但法老必不听你们；我要伸手重重地刑罚埃及，将我的军队以色列民从埃及地领出来。
Then I will attack Egypt, imposing heavy punishments on them, and I will lead out by their tribes my people the Israelites.
5 我伸手攻击埃及，将以色列人从他们中间领出来的时候，埃及人就要知道我是耶和华。”
In this way the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord—when I take action against Egypt and lead the Israelites out of the country.”
6 摩西、亚伦这样行；耶和华怎样吩咐他们，他们就照样行了。
Moses and Aaron did exactly as the Lord had ordered.
7 摩西、亚伦与法老说话的时候，摩西八十岁，亚伦八十三岁。
Moses was eighty and Aaron was eighty-three when they went and spoke to Pharaoh.
8 耶和华晓谕摩西、亚伦说：
The Lord told Moses and Aaron,
9 “法老若对你们说：‘你们行件奇事吧！’你就吩咐亚伦说：‘把杖丢在法老面前，使杖变作蛇。’”
“When Pharaoh asks you, ‘Why don't you perform a miracle, then?’ tell Aaron, ‘Take your walking stick and throw it down in front of Pharaoh,’ and it will turn into a snake.”
10 摩西、亚伦进去见法老，就照耶和华所吩咐的行。亚伦把杖丢在法老和臣仆面前，杖就变作蛇。
Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did what the Lord had ordered. Aaron threw down his staff in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it turned into a snake.
11 于是法老召了博士和术士来；他们是埃及行法术的，也用邪术照样而行。
But Pharaoh called in wise men and sorcerers, and these Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their magic arts.
12 他们各人丢下自己的杖，杖就变作蛇；但亚伦的杖吞了他们的杖。
Each of them threw down their walking sticks and they also turned into snakes, but Aaron's walking stick swallowed up all their walking sticks.
13 法老心里刚硬，不肯听从摩西、亚伦，正如耶和华所说的。
But Pharaoh had a hard, stubborn attitude, and he wouldn't listen to them, as the Lord had predicted.
14 耶和华对摩西说：“法老心里固执，不肯容百姓去。
The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh has a stubborn attitude—he's refusing to let the people go.
15 明日早晨，他出来往水边去，你要往河边迎接他，手里要拿着那变过蛇的杖，
So tomorrow morning go to Pharaoh as he walks down to the river. Wait to meet him on the bank of the Nile. Take with you the walking stick that turned into a snake.
16 对他说：‘耶和华—希伯来人的 神打发我来见你，说：容我的百姓去，好在旷野事奉我。到如今你还是不听。
Tell him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you, ‘Let my people go, so that they can worship me in the desert. But you have not listened up until now.
17 耶和华这样说：我要用我手里的杖击打河中的水，水就变作血；因此，你必知道我是耶和华。
This is what the Lord is now telling you: This is how you will know that I am the Lord.’” “Watch! Using the walking stick I'm holding, I'm going to hit the water of the Nile, and it will turn to blood.
18 河里的鱼必死，河也要腥臭，埃及人就要厌恶吃这河里的水。’”
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will smell, and the Egyptians won't be able to drink any of its water.”
19 耶和华晓谕摩西说：“你对亚伦说：‘把你的杖伸在埃及所有的水以上，就是在他们的江、河、池、塘以上，叫水都变作血。在埃及遍地，无论在木器中，石器中，都必有血。’”
The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your walking stick in your hand and hold it out over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers and canals and ponds and pools, so that they will turn to blood. There will be blood through all of Egypt, even in containers made of wood and stone.’”
20 摩西、亚伦就照耶和华所吩咐的行。亚伦在法老和臣仆眼前举杖击打河里的水，河里的水都变作血了。
Moses and Aaron did exactly as the Lord had ordered. While Pharaoh and all his officials watched, Aaron lifted up his walking stick and hit the water of the Nile. Immediately the whole river turned to blood!
21 河里的鱼死了，河也腥臭了，埃及人就不能吃这河里的水；埃及遍地都有了血。
The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so awful that the Egyptians could not drink its water. There was blood through all of Egypt!
22 埃及行法术的，也用邪术照样而行。法老心里刚硬，不肯听摩西、亚伦，正如耶和华所说的。
But the Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their magic arts. Pharaoh maintained his stubborn attitude and he wouldn't listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had predicted.
23 法老转身进宫，也不把这事放在心上。
Pharaoh went back to his palace and didn't pay any attention to what had happened.
24 埃及人都在河的两边挖地，要得水喝，因为他们不能喝这河里的水。
All the Egyptians dug alongside the Nile because they couldn't drink its water.
25 耶和华击打河以后满了七天。
Seven days went by after the Lord hit the Nile.
