Exodus 4
1 Moses answered and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee.
摩西回答说：“他们必不信我，也不听我的话，必说：‘耶和华并没有向你显现。’”
2 Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.
耶和华对摩西说：“你手里是什么？”他说：“是杖。”
3 And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent: so that Moses fled from it.
耶和华说：“丢在地上。”他一丢下去，就变作蛇；摩西便跑开。
4 And the Lord said: Put out thy hand and take it by the tail. He put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod.
耶和华对摩西说：“伸出手来，拿住它的尾巴，它必在你手中仍变为杖；
5 That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee.
如此好叫他们信耶和华—他们祖宗的 神，就是亚伯拉罕的 神，以撒的 神，雅各的 神，是向你显现了。”
6 And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow.
耶和华又对他说：“把手放在怀里。”他就把手放在怀里，及至抽出来，不料，手长了大麻风，有雪那样白。
7 And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh.
耶和华说：“再把手放在怀里。”他就再把手放在怀里，及至从怀里抽出来，不料，手已经复原，与周身的肉一样；
8 If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign.
又说：“倘或他们不听你的话，也不信头一个神迹，他们必信第二个神迹。
9 But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest out of the river shall be turned into blood.
这两个神迹若都不信，也不听你的话，你就从河里取些水，倒在旱地上，你从河里取的水必在旱地上变作血。”
10 Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord. I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before: and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue.
摩西对耶和华说：“主啊，我素日不是能言的人，就是从你对仆人说话以后，也是这样。我本是拙口笨舌的。”
11 The Lord said to him: Who made man’s mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?
耶和华对他说：“谁造人的口呢？谁使人口哑、耳聋、目明、眼瞎呢？岂不是我—耶和华吗？
12 Go therefore and I will be in thy mouth: and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.
现在去吧，我必赐你口才，指教你所当说的话。”
13 But he said: I beseech thee, Lord send whom thou wilt send.
摩西说：“主啊，你愿意打发谁，就打发谁去吧！”
14 The Lord being angry at Moses, said Aaron the Levite is thy brother, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet thee, and seeing thee shall be glad at heart.
耶和华向摩西发怒说：“不是有你的哥哥利未人亚伦吗？我知道他是能言的；现在他出来迎接你，他一见你，心里就欢喜。
15 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his mouth, and will shew you what you must do.
你要将当说的话传给他；我也要赐你和他口才，又要指教你们所当行的事。
16 He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.
他要替你对百姓说话；你要以他当作口，他要以你当作 神。
17 And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.
你手里要拿这杖，好行神迹。”
18 Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him: I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.
于是，摩西回到他岳父叶忒罗那里，对他说：“求你容我回去见我在埃及的弟兄，看他们还在不在。”叶忒罗对摩西说：“你可以平平安安地去吧！”
19 And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt: for they are all dead that sought thy life.
耶和华在米甸对摩西说：“你要回埃及去，因为寻索你命的人都死了。”
20 Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass: and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.
摩西就带着妻子和两个儿子，叫他们骑上驴，回埃及地去。摩西手里拿着 神的杖。
21 And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that thou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I shall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.
耶和华对摩西说：“你回到埃及的时候，要留意将我指示你的一切奇事行在法老面前。但我要使他的心刚硬，他必不容百姓去。
22 And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
你要对法老说：‘耶和华这样说：以色列是我的儿子，我的长子。
23 I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.
我对你说过：容我的儿子去，好事奉我。你还是不肯容他去。看哪，我要杀你的长子。’”
24 And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him.
摩西在路上住宿的地方，耶和华遇见他，想要杀他。
25 Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the fore skin of her son, and touched his feet and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.
西坡拉就拿一块火石，割下他儿子的阳皮，丢在摩西脚前，说：“你真是我的血郎了。”
26 And he let him go after she had said A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.
这样，耶和华才放了他。西坡拉说：“你因割礼就是血郎了。”
27 And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And he went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.
耶和华对亚伦说：“你往旷野去迎接摩西。”他就去，在 神的山遇见摩西，和他亲嘴。
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded.
摩西将耶和华打发他所说的言语和嘱咐他所行的神迹都告诉了亚伦。
29 And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of the children of Israel.
摩西、亚伦就去招聚以色列的众长老。
30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses: and he wrought the signs before the people,
亚伦将耶和华对摩西所说的一切话述说了一遍，又在百姓眼前行了那些神迹，
31 And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel: and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored.
百姓就信了。以色列人听见耶和华眷顾他们，鉴察他们的困苦，就低头下拜。
