Exodus 4

1 Moses answered, "But, look, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'God has not appeared to you.'"

respondens Moses ait non credent mihi neque audient vocem meam sed dicent non apparuit tibi Dominus

2 The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A staff."

dixit ergo ad eum quid est hoc quod tenes in manu tua respondit virga

3 He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses ran away from it.

ait proice eam in terram proiecit et versa est in colubrum ita ut fugeret Moses

4 The LORD said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a staff in his hand.

dixitque Dominus extende manum tuam et adprehende caudam eius extendit et tenuit versaque est in virgam

5 "That they may believe that the LORD, the 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 The LORD said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, look, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

dixitque Dominus rursum mitte manum in sinum tuum quam cum misisset in sinum protulit leprosam instar nivis

7 He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, look, it had turned again as his other flesh.

retrahe ait manum in sinum tuum retraxit et protulit iterum et erat similis carni reliquae

8 "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

si non crediderint inquit tibi neque audierint sermonem signi prioris credent verbo signi sequentis

9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."

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 to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow 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 man's mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, God?

dixit Dominus ad eum quis fecit os hominis aut quis fabricatus est mutum et surdum videntem et caecum nonne ego

12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."

perge igitur et ego ero in ore tuo doceboque te quid loquaris

13 He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."

at ille obsecro inquit Domine mitte quem missurus es

14 The anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, look, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his 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 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall 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 be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

ipse loquetur pro te ad populum et erit os tuum tu autem eris ei in his quae ad Deum pertinent

17 You shall take this staff in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

virgam quoque hanc sume in manu tua in qua facturus es signa

18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "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 The LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

dixit ergo Dominus ad Mosen in Madian vade revertere in Aegyptum mortui sunt omnes qui quaerebant animam tuam

20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's staff 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 The LORD said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

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 You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

dicesque ad eum haec dicit Dominus filius meus primogenitus meus Israhel

23 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Look, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

dixi tibi dimitte filium meum ut serviat mihi et noluisti dimittere eum ecce ego interficiam filium tuum primogenitum

24 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that the LORD met him and wanted to kill him.

cumque esset in itinere in diversorio occurrit ei Dominus et volebat occidere eum

25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

tulit ilico Seffora acutissimam petram et circumcidit praeputium filii sui tetigitque pedes eius et ait sponsus sanguinum tu mihi es

26 So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

et dimisit eum postquam dixerat sponsus sanguinum ob circumcisionem

27 The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and 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 Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

narravitque Moses Aaron omnia verba Domini quibus miserat eum et signa quae mandaverat

29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

veneruntque simul et congregaverunt cunctos seniores filiorum Israhel

30 Aaron spoke all the words which God had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

locutusque est Aaron omnia verba quae dixerat Dominus ad Mosen et fecit signa coram populo

31 The people believed, and when they heard that God had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

et credidit populus audieruntque quod visitasset Dominus filios Israhel et quod respexisset adflictionem eorum et proni adoraverunt