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.’”
respondens Moses ait non credent mihi neque audient vocem meam sed dicent non apparuit tibi Dominus
2 Therefore, he said to him, “What is that you hold in your hand?” He answered, “A staff.”
dixit ergo ad eum quid est hoc quod tenes in manu tua respondit virga
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.
ait proice eam in terram proiecit et versa est in colubrum ita ut fugeret Moses
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.
dixitque Dominus extende manum tuam et adprehende caudam eius extendit et tenuit versaque est in virgam
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.”
ut credant inquit quod apparuerit tibi Dominus Deus patrum tuorum Deus Abraham Deus Isaac Deus Iacob
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.
dixitque Dominus rursum mitte manum in sinum tuum quam cum misisset in sinum protulit leprosam instar nivis
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.
retrahe ait manum in sinum tuum retraxit et protulit iterum et erat similis carni reliquae
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.
si non crediderint inquit tibi neque audierint sermonem signi prioris credent verbo signi sequentis
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.”
quod si nec duobus quidem his signis crediderint neque audierint vocem tuam sume aquam fluminis et effunde eam super aridam et quicquid hauseris de fluvio vertetur in sanguinem
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.”
ait Moses obsecro Domine non sum eloquens ab heri et nudius tertius et ex quo locutus es ad servum tuum inpeditioris et tardioris linguae sum
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?
dixit Dominus ad eum quis fecit os hominis aut quis fabricatus est mutum et surdum videntem et caecum nonne ego
12 Go on, therefore, and I will be in your mouth. And I will teach you what you shall say.”
perge igitur et ego ero in ore tuo doceboque te quid loquaris
13 But he said, “I beg you, O Lord, send whomever else you would send.”
at ille obsecro inquit Domine mitte quem missurus es
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.
iratus Dominus in Mosen ait Aaron frater tuus Levites scio quod eloquens sit ecce ipse egreditur in occursum tuum vidensque te laetabitur corde
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.
loquere ad eum et pone verba mea in ore eius ego ero in ore tuo et in ore illius et ostendam vobis quid agere debeatis
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.
ipse loquetur pro te ad populum et erit os tuum tu autem eris ei in his quae ad Deum pertinent
17 Also, take this staff into your hand; with it you will accomplish the signs.”
virgam quoque hanc sume in manu tua in qua facturus es signa
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.”
abiit Moses et reversus est ad Iethro cognatum suum dixitque ei vadam et revertar ad fratres meos in Aegyptum ut videam si adhuc vivunt cui ait Iethro vade in pace
19 And so the Lord said to Moses in Midian: “Go, and return to Egypt. For all those who sought your life have died.”
dixit ergo Dominus ad Mosen in Madian vade revertere in Aegyptum mortui sunt omnes qui quaerebant animam tuam
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.
tulit Moses uxorem et filios suos et inposuit eos super asinum reversusque est in Aegyptum portans virgam Dei in manu sua
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.
dixitque ei Dominus revertenti in Aegyptum vide ut omnia ostenta quae posui in manu tua facias coram Pharaone ego indurabo cor eius et non dimittet populum
22 And you shall say to him: ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.
dicesque ad eum haec dicit Dominus filius meus primogenitus meus Israhel
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.’”
dixi tibi dimitte filium meum ut serviat mihi et noluisti dimittere eum ecce ego interficiam filium tuum primogenitum
24 And while he was on the journey, at an inn, the Lord met him, and he was willing to kill him.
cumque esset in itinere in diversorio occurrit ei Dominus et volebat occidere eum
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.”
tulit ilico Seffora acutissimam petram et circumcidit praeputium filii sui tetigitque pedes eius et ait sponsus sanguinum tu mihi es
26 And he released him, after she had said, “You are a bloody spouse,” because of the circumcision.
et dimisit eum postquam dixerat sponsus sanguinum ob circumcisionem
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.
dixit autem Dominus ad Aaron vade in occursum Mosi in deserto qui perrexit ei obviam in montem Dei et osculatus est eum
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.
narravitque Moses Aaron omnia verba Domini quibus miserat eum et signa quae mandaverat
29 And they arrived at the same time, and they gathered together all the elders of the sons of Israel.
veneruntque simul et congregaverunt cunctos seniores filiorum Israhel
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,
locutusque est Aaron omnia verba quae dixerat Dominus ad Mosen et fecit signa coram populo
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.
et credidit populus audieruntque quod visitasset Dominus filios Israhel et quod respexisset adflictionem eorum et proni adoraverunt
