Exodus 4

1 And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord.

Mojzes je odgovoril in rekel: »Toda, glej, ne bodo mi verjeli niti prisluhnili mojemu glasu, kajti rekli bodo: › Gospod se ti ni prikazal.‹«

2 And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.

Gospod mu je rekel: »Kaj je to v tvoji roki?« Rekel je: »Palica.«

3 And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it.

Rekel je: »Vrzi jo na tla.« Vrgel jo je na tla in ta je postala kača in Mojzes je pobegnil pred njo.

4 And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by the tail: (and he put out his hand and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his hand: )

Gospod je rekel Mojzesu: »Iztegni svojo roko in jo primi za rep.« Iztegnil je svojo roko in jo ujel in v njegovi roki je postala palica.

5 So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by you.

»Da bodo oni lahko verjeli, da se ti je prikazal Gospod, Bog njihovih očetov, Bog Abrahama, Bog Izaka in Bog Jakoba.«

6 Then the Lord said to him again, Put your hand inside your clothing. And he put his hand inside his robe: and when he took it out it was like the hand of a leper, as white as snow.

Gospod mu je nadalje rekel: »Sedaj daj svojo roko v svoje naročje.« Svojo roko je položil v svoje naročje, ko pa jo je izvlekel, glej, je bila njegova roka gobava kakor sneg.

7 And he said, Put your hand inside your robe again. (And he put his hand into his robe again, and when he took it out he saw that it had become like his other flesh.)

Rekel je: »Svojo roko ponovno daj v svoje naročje.« In ponovno je svojo roko položil v svoje naročje in izvlekel jo je iz svojega naročja in glej, ponovno je bila spremenjena kakor drugo njegovo meso.

8 And if they do not have faith in you or give ear to the voice of the first sign, they will have faith in the second sign.

»Zgodilo se bo, če ti ne bodo verjeli niti prisluhnili glasu prvega znamenja, da bodo verjeli glasu zadnjega znamenja.

9 And if they have no faith even in these two signs and will not give ear to your voice, then you are to take the water of the Nile and put it on the dry land: and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.

Zgodilo se bo, če ne bodo verjeli tudi tema dvema znamenjema niti prisluhnili tvojemu glasu, da boš iz reke zajel vodo in jo izlil na suho zemljo in voda, ki jo zajameš iz reke, bo na suhih tleh postala kri.«

10 And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.

Mojzes je Gospodu rekel: »Oh moj Gospod, jaz nisem zgovoren, niti poprej niti odkar si spregovoril svojemu služabniku, temveč sem počasen za govorjenje in počasnega jezika.«

11 And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who takes away a man's voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Gospod mu je rekel: »Kdo je naredil človekova usta? Ali kdo naredi nemega ali gluhega ali da vidi ali slepega? Ali ne jaz, Gospod?

12 So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.

Sedaj torej pojdi in jaz bom s tvojimi usti in te učil kaj boš govoril.«

13 And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send.

Rekel je: »Oh moj Gospod, pošlji, prosim te, po roki tistega, ki ga ti hočeš poslati.«

14 And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

Gospodova jeza je bila vžgana zoper Mojzesa in rekel je: » Mar ni Lévijevec Aron tvoj brat? Vem, da lahko dobro govori. In tudi, glej, prihaja, da te sreča in ko te zagleda, bo v svojem srcu vesel.

15 Let him give ear to your voice, and you will put my words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his, teaching you what you have to do.

Ti mu boš govoril in v njegova usta polagal besede in jaz bom s tvojimi usti in z njegovimi usti in vaju učil, kaj bosta storila.

16 And he will do the talking for you to the people: he will be to you as a mouth and you will be to him as God.

On bo tvoj govornik ljudstvu in on bo, celó on bo tebi namesto ust in ti boš njemu namesto Boga.

17 And take in your hand this rod with which you will do the signs.

In v svojo roko boš vzel to palico, s katero boš delal znamenja.«

18 And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

Mojzes je odšel, se vrnil k svojemu tastu Jitru in mu rekel: »Pusti me iti, prosim te in se vrniti k mojim bratom, ki so v Egiptu in videti ali so še živi.« Jitro je Mojzesu rekel: »Pojdi v miru.«

19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.

Gospod je v Midjánu rekel Mojzesu: »Pojdi, vrni se v Egipt, kajti vsi ljudje, ki so ti stregli po življenju, so mrtvi.«

20 And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand.

Mojzes je vzel svojo ženo in svoja sinova in jih posadil na osla in se vrnil v egiptovsko deželo in Mojzes je v svojo roko vzel Božjo palico.

21 And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go.

Gospod je rekel Mojzesu: »Ko greš, da se vrneš v Egipt, glej, da boš pred faraonom storil vse te čudeže, ki sem jih položil v tvojo roko, toda jaz bom zakrknil njegovo srce, da ljudstvu ne bo dovolil oditi.

22 And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:

Faraonu boš rekel: ›Tako govori Gospod, Izrael je moj sin, celo moj prvorojenec‹

23 And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.

in jaz ti pravim: ›dovoli mojemu sinu oditi, da mi bo lahko služil. Če pa mu boš odklonil oditi, glej, bom ubil tvojega sina, celó tvojega prvorojenca.‹«

24 Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death.

Pripetilo se je po poti v gostišče, da ga je srečal Gospod in si prizadeval, da ga ubije.

25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.

Tedaj je Cipóra vzela oster kamen in odrezala prednjo kožico svojega sina in jo vrgla k njegovim stopalom ter rekla: »Zagotovo si mi krvav soprog.«

26 So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.

Tako ga je pustil oditi. Potem je rekla: »Krvav soprog si zaradi obreze.«

27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and you will see Moses. So he went and came across Moses at the mountain of God, and gave him a kiss.

Gospod je rekel Aronu: »Pojdi v divjino, da srečaš Mojzesa.« Ta je odšel in ga srečal na gori Boga ter ga poljubil.

28 And Moses gave Aaron an account of all the words of the Lord which he had sent him to say, and of all the signs which he had given him orders to do.

Mojzes je povedal Aronu vse besede Gospoda, ki ga je poslal in vsa znamenja, ki mu jih je zapovedal.

29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:

Mojzes in Aron sta odšla ter zbrala skupaj vse starešine Izraelovih otrok

30 And Aaron said to them all the words the Lord had said to Moses, and did the signs before all the people.

in Aron je govoril vse besede, ki jih je Gospod govoril Mojzesu in v očeh ljudstva storil znamenja.

31 And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.

Ljudje so verovali in ko so slišali, da je Gospod obiskal Izraelove otroke in da je pogledal na njihovo stisko, potem so sklonili svoje glave in oboževali.