Exodus 7
1 The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
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。
2 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.
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。
3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
我要使法老的心刚硬，也要在埃及地多行神迹奇事。
4 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.
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。
5 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.”
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。”
6 So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.
摩西、亚伦这样行；耶和华怎样吩咐他们，他们就照样行了。
7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
摩西、亚伦与法老说话的时候，摩西八十岁，亚伦八十三岁。
8 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
耶和华晓谕摩西、亚伦说：
9 “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.”
“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。’”
10 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.
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。
11 But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.
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。
12 Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.
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。
13 Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
法老心里刚硬，不肯听从摩西、亚伦，正如耶和华所说的。
14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.
耶和华对摩西说：“法老心里固执，不肯容百姓去。
15 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.
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，
16 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.
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。
17 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.
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。
18 The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
河里的鱼必死，河也要腥臭，埃及人就要厌恶吃这河里的水。’”
19 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.”
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。’”
20 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.
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。
21 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.
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。
22 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.
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。
23 Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.
法老转身进宫，也不把这事放在心上。
24 So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.
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。
25 And seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.
耶和华击打河以后满了七天。
