Exodus 4
1 Responding, Moses said, “They will not believe me, and they will not listen to my voice, but they will say: ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’”
モーセ對へていひけるは然ながら彼等我を信ぜず又わが言に聽したがはずして言んヱホバ汝にあらはれたまはずと
2 Therefore, he said to him, “What is that you hold in your hand?” He answered, “A staff.”
ヱホバかれにいひたまひけるは汝の手にある者は何なるや彼いふ杖なり
3 And the Lord said, “Cast it down upon the ground.” He cast it down, and it was turned into a snake, so that Moses fled away.
ヱホバいひたまひけるは其を地に擲よとすなはち之を地になぐるに蛇となりければモーセその前を避たり
4 And the Lord said, “Reach out your hand, and take hold of its tail.” He reached out his hand and took hold, and it was turned into a staff.
ヱホバ、モーセにいひたまひけるは汝の手をのべて其尾を執れとすなはち手をのべて之を執ば手にいりて杖となる
5 “So may they believe,” he said, “that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
ヱホバいひたまふ是は彼らの先祖等の神アブラハムの神イサクの神ヤコブの神ヱホバの汝にあらはれたることを彼らに信ぜしめんためなり
6 And the Lord said again, “Put your hand into your bosom.” And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it out leprous, resembling snow.
ヱホバまたかれに言たまひけるは汝の手を懐に納よとすなはち手を懐にいれて之を出し見るにその手癩病を生じて雪のごとくなれり
7 “Put your hand back,” he said, “into your bosom.” He put it back and brought it out again, and it was like the rest of his flesh.
ヱホバまた言たまひけるは汝の手をふたたび懐にいれよと彼すなはちふたたび其手を懐にいれて之を懐より出し見るに變りて他處の肌膚のごとくになる
8 “If they will not believe you,” he said, “and will not listen to the sermon of the first sign, then they will believe the word of the subsequent sign.
ヱホバいひたまふ彼等もし汝を信ぜずまたその最初の徴の聲に聽從はざるならば後の徴の聲を信ぜん
9 But if they will not believe even these two signs, and they will not listen to your voice: take from the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land, and whatever you will have drawn from the river will be turned into blood.”
彼らもし是ふたつの徴をも信ぜすして汝の言に聽從はざるならば汝河の水をとりて之を陸地にそそげ汝が河より取たる水陸地にて血となるべし
10 Moses said: “I beg you, O Lord, I was not eloquent yesterday or the day before. And from the time that you have spoken to your servant, I have a greater impediment and slowness of tongue.”
モーセ、ヱホバにいひけるはわが主よ我は素言辭に敏き人にあらず汝が僕に語りたまへるに及びても猶しかり我は口重く舌重き者なり
11 The Lord said to him: “Who made the mouth of man? And who has formed the mute and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? Was it not I?
ヱホバかれにいひたまひけるは人の口を造る者は誰なるや唖者聾者目明者瞽者などを造る者は誰なるや我ヱホバなるにあらずや
12 Go on, therefore, and I will be in your mouth. And I will teach you what you shall say.”
然ば往けよ我なんぢの口にありて汝の言ふべきことを敎へん
13 But he said, “I beg you, O Lord, send whomever else you would send.”
モーセいひけるはわが主よ願くは遣すべき者をつかはしたまへ
14 The Lord, being angry at Moses, said: “Aaron the Levite is your brother. I know that he is eloquent. Behold, he is going out to meet you, and seeing you, he will rejoice in heart.
是においてヱホバ、モーセにむかひ怒を發していひたまひけるはレビ人アロンは汝の兄弟なるにあらずや我かれが言を善するを知るまた彼なんぢに遇んとていで來る彼汝を見る時心に喜ばん
15 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth. And I will be in your mouth and in his mouth, and I will reveal to you what you must do.
汝かれに語りて言をその口に授くべし我なんぢの口と彼の口にありて汝らの爲べき事を敎へん
16 He will speak for you to the people, and he will be your mouth. But you will be with him in those things that pertain to God.
彼なんぢに代て民に語らん彼は汝の口に代らん汝は彼のために神に代るべし
17 Also, take this staff into your hand; with it you will accomplish the signs.”
なんぢこの杖を手に執り之をもて奇蹟をおこなふべし
18 Moses went forth, and he returned to Jethro, his father in law, and he said to him, “I shall go and return to my brothers in Egypt, so that I may see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to him, “Go in peace.”
是においてモーセゆきてその妻の父ヱテロの許にかへりて之にいふ請ふ我をして往てわがエジプトにある兄弟等の所にかへらしめ彼等のなほ生ながらへをるや否を見さしめよヱテロ、モーセに安然に往くべしといふ
19 And so the Lord said to Moses in Midian: “Go, and return to Egypt. For all those who sought your life have died.”
爰にヱホバ、ミデアンにてモーセにいひたまひけるは往てエジプトにかへれ汝の生命をもとめし人は皆死たりと
20 Therefore, Moses took his wife and his sons, and he placed them upon a donkey, and he returned into Egypt, carrying the staff of God in his hand.
モーセすなはちその妻と子等をとり之を驢馬に乗てエジプトの地にかへるモーセは神の杖を手に執り
21 And the Lord said to him, as he was returning to Egypt: “See that you accomplish, in the sight of Pharaoh, all the wonders that I have placed in your hand. I will harden his heart, and he will not release the people.
ヱホバ、モーセにいひたまひけるは汝エジプトにかへりゆける時はかならず我がなんぢの手に授けたるところの奇跡を悉くパロのまへにおこなふべし但し我かれの心を剛愎にすれば彼民を去しめざるべし
22 And you shall say to him: ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.
汝パロに言べしヱホバかく言ふイスラエルはわが子わが冢子なり
23 I have said to you: Release my son, so that he may serve me. And you were not willing to release him. Behold, I will put to death your firstborn son.’”
我なんぢにいふ我が子を去らしめて我に事ふることをえせしめよ汝もし彼をさらしむることを拒ば我なんぢの子なんぢの冢子を殺すべしと
24 And while he was on the journey, at an inn, the Lord met him, and he was willing to kill him.
モーセ途にある時ヱホバかれの宿所にて彼に遇てころさんとしたまひければ
25 For this reason, Zipporah took a very sharp stone, and she circumcised the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, “You are a bloody spouse to me.”
チツポラ利き石をとりてその男子の陽の皮を割りモーセの足下になげうちて言ふ汝はまことにわがためには血の夫なりと
26 And he released him, after she had said, “You are a bloody spouse,” because of the circumcision.
是においてヱホバ、モーセをゆるしたまふ此時チツポラが血の夫といひしは割禮の故によりてなり
27 Then the Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the desert to meet Moses.” And he went directly to meet him on the mountain of God, and he kissed him.
爰にヱホバ、アロンにいひたまひけるに曠野にゆきてモーセを迎へよと彼すなはちゆきて神の山にてモーセに遇ひ之に接吻す
28 And Moses explained to Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs which he had commanded.
モーセ、ヱホバがおのれに言ふくめて遣したまへる諸の言とヱホバのおのれに命じたまひし諸の奇跡とをアロンにつげたり
29 And they arrived at the same time, and they gathered together all the elders of the sons of Israel.
斯てモーセとアロン往てイスラエルの子孫の長老を盡く集む
30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses. And he accomplished the signs in the sight of the people,
而してアロン、ヱホバのモーセにかたりたまひし言を盡くつぐ又彼民の目のまへにて奇蹟をなしければ
31 and the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the sons of Israel, and that he had looked with favor upon their affliction. And falling prostrate, they worshiped.
民すなはち信ず彼等ヱホバがイスラエルの民をかへりみその苦患をおもひたまふを聞て身をかがめて拝をなせり
