Exodus 4
1 And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, Jehovah has not appeared to thee.
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 And Jehovah said to him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, 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 he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
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 Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand and take it by the tail — and he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand —
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 that they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
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 Jehovah said moreover to him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom, and took it out, and behold, his hand was leprous, as 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 And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again, and took it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again as 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 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the other 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 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also those two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour [it] on the dry [land]; and the water that thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry [land].
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 And Moses said to Jehovah, Ah Lord! I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since thou hast spoken to thy servant, for I am slow of speech and of a slow 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 And Jehovah said to him, Who gave man a mouth? or who maketh dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? [have] not I, Jehovah?
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 And now go, and I will be with thy mouth, and will teach thee what thou shalt 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 And he said, Ah Lord! send, I pray thee, by the hand [of him whom] thou wilt 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 Then the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also behold, he goeth out to meet thee; and when he seeth thee he will be glad in his 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 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall 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 And he shall speak for thee unto the people; and it shall come to pass that he shall be to thee for a mouth, and thou shalt be to him for 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 And thou shalt take this staff in thy hand, with which thou shalt do 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 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, that I may see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, 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 Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt; for all the men are dead who sought thy life.
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 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them riding upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took 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 Jehovah said to Moses, When thou goest to return to Egypt, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put in thy hand. And I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
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 thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
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 And I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me. And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.
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 it came to pass on the way, in the inn, that Jehovah came upon him, and sought to slay 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 Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou 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 let him go. Then she said, A bloody husband — 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 And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him on the mountain of God, and 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 told Aaron all the words of Jehovah who had sent him, and all the signs that he had commanded him.
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 Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the children 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 that Jehovah had spoken to Moses, and did the signs before the eyes 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 when they heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
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
