Exodus 7
1 and to say LORD to(wards) Moses to see: behold! to give: make you God to/for Pharaoh and Aaron brother: male-sibling your to be prophet your
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Listen [carefully]. [Just like I enabled prophet to speak my messages], I will cause the king [to consider that] you are like a god, and that Aaron is like a prophet.
2 you(m. s.) to speak: speak [obj] all which to command you and Aaron brother: male-sibling your to speak: speak to(wards) Pharaoh and to send: let go [obj] son: descendant/people Israel from land: country/planet his
You must tell everything I command you [to tell to your older] brother Aaron, and he will tell that to the king. He must tell the king to let the Israeli people leave his land.
3 and I to harden [obj] heart Pharaoh and to multiply [obj] sign: miraculous my and [obj] wonder my in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt
But I will make the king stubborn [IDM]. As a result, even though I perform many kinds of (miracles/terrifying things) [DOU] [here] in Egypt,
4 and not to hear: hear to(wards) you Pharaoh and to give: put [obj] hand my in/on/with Egypt and to come out: send [obj] army my [obj] people my son: descendant/people Israel from land: country/planet Egypt in/on/with judgment great: large
the king will not pay any attention to what you say. Then I will punish [MTY] the people of Egypt [MTY] very severely [MTY], and I will lead/bring the tribes of the Israeli people out of Egypt.
5 and to know Egyptian for I LORD in/on/with to stretch I [obj] hand my upon Egypt and to come out: send [obj] son: descendant/people Israel from midst their
Then, when I show my great power [MTY] to the Egyptian people and bring the Israeli people out from among them, they will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].”
6 and to make: do Moses and Aaron like/as as which to command LORD [obj] them so to make: do
Aaron and Moses/I did what Yahweh told them/us to do. They/We [went and spoke to the king].
7 and Moses son: aged eighty year and Aaron son: aged three and eighty year in/on/with to speak: speak they to(wards) Pharaoh
At that time, Moses/I was 80 years old, and Aaron was 83 years old.
8 and to say LORD to(wards) Moses and to(wards) Aaron to/for to say
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
9 for to speak: speak to(wards) you Pharaoh to/for to say to give: make to/for you wonder and to say to(wards) Aaron to take: take [obj] tribe: rod your and to throw to/for face: before Pharaoh to be to/for serpent: snake
“If the king says to you, ‘Prove [that God sent] you by performing a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Throw your stick down in front of the king, in order that it may become a snake.’”
10 and to come (in): come Moses and Aaron to(wards) Pharaoh and to make: do so like/as as which to command LORD and to throw Aaron [obj] tribe: rod his to/for face: before Pharaoh and to/for face: before servant/slave his and to be to/for serpent: snake
So Aaron and Moses/I went to the king and did what Yahweh had commanded [them/us to do]. Aaron threw his stick down in front of the king and his officials, and it became a snake.
11 and to call: call to also Pharaoh to/for wise and to/for to practice sorcery and to make: do also they(masc.) magician Egypt in/on/with secret their so
Then the king summoned his sorcerers and men who performed magic. They did the same thing, using their magic.
12 and to throw man: anyone tribe: rod his and to be to/for serpent: snake and to swallow up tribe: rod Aaron [obj] tribe: rod their
They all threw down their sticks, and they became snakes. But Aaron’s stick, [which had become a snake], swallowed up all their sticks!
13 and to strengthen: strengthen heart Pharaoh and not to hear: hear to(wards) them like/as as which to speak: speak LORD
But the king continued to be stubborn [IDM], just as Yahweh had predicted, and he would not pay attention to [what Aaron and Moses/I said].
14 and to say LORD to(wards) Moses heavy heart Pharaoh to refuse to/for to send: let go [the] people
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “The king is very stubborn [IDM]. He refuses to allow [my] people to go.
15 to go: went to(wards) Pharaoh in/on/with morning behold to come out: come [the] water [to] and to stand to/for to encounter: meet him upon lip: shore [the] Nile and [the] tribe: rod which to overturn to/for serpent to take: take in/on/with hand your
So [tomorrow] morning, go to him as he is going down to the [Nile] River [to bathe]. Wait for him at the riverbank. [When he comes out of the water, show] him the stick, the one which became a snake.
16 and to say to(wards) him LORD God [the] Hebrew to send: depart me to(wards) you to/for to say to send: let go [obj] people my and to serve: minister me in/on/with wilderness and behold not to hear: obey till thus
Say to him, ‘Yahweh God, the one [we] Hebrews [worship], sent me to you to tell you to let my people go, in order that they may worship him in the desert. [We told you that], but you have not paid any attention to it.
17 thus to say LORD in/on/with this to know for I LORD behold I to smite in/on/with tribe: rod which in/on/with hand my upon [the] water which in/on/with Nile and to overturn to/for blood
[So now] Yahweh says this: “This is the way you will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do]. Watch this: I am going to strike the water that is in the Nile [River] with the stick that is in my hand. [When I do that], the water will become blood (OR, [red like] blood [MTY]).
18 and [the] fish which in/on/with Nile to die and to stink [the] Nile and be weary Egyptian to/for to drink water from [the] Nile
Then the fish in the Nile [River] will die, and the [water in] the river will stink, and the Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the Nile River.”’”
19 and to say LORD to(wards) Moses to say to(wards) Aaron to take: take tribe: rod your and to stretch hand your upon water Egypt upon river their upon Nile their and upon pool their and upon all collection water their and to be blood and to be blood in/on/with all land: country/planet Egypt and in/on/with tree: wood and in/on/with stone
Yahweh said to Moses/me, “[When you are talking to the king], say to Aaron, ‘Hold your stick out [as though you were holding it] over the water in Egypt—over the rivers, the canals, the ponds, and over the pools of water, in order that [all of it] may become [red like] blood.’ When Aaron does that, there will be blood throughout Egypt, even in wooden jars and in stone jars.”
20 and to make: do so Moses and Aaron like/as as which to command LORD and to exalt in/on/with tribe: rod and to smite [obj] [the] water which in/on/with Nile to/for eye: seeing Pharaoh and to/for eye: seeing servant/slave his and to overturn all [the] water which in/on/with Nile to/for blood
So Aaron and Moses/I did what Yahweh commanded. As the king and his officials were watching, Aaron lifted up his stick and then struck the water in the Nile [River] with it. And all the water in the river turned [red like] blood.
21 and [the] fish which in/on/with Nile to die and to stink [the] Nile and not be able Egyptian to/for to drink water from [the] Nile and to be [the] blood in/on/with all land: country/planet Egypt
Then all the fish died. And the water stank, with the result that the Egyptians could not drink water from the river. Everywhere in Egypt [the water] became [red like] blood.
22 and to make: do so magician Egypt in/on/with secrecy their and to strengthen: strengthen heart Pharaoh and not to hear: hear to(wards) them like/as as which to speak: speak LORD
But the men who performed magic did the same thing using their magic. So the king remained stubborn [IDM], and he would not pay attention to what Aaron and Moses/I said, just as Yahweh had predicted.
23 and to turn Pharaoh and to come (in): come to(wards) house: home his and not to set: consider heart his also to/for this
The king turned and went back to his palace, and he did not think any more about it [IDM].
24 and to search all Egyptian around: side [the] Nile water to/for to drink for not be able to/for to drink from water [the] Nile
The Egyptians [HYP] dug [into the ground] near the Nile [River] to get water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.
25 and to fill seven day after to smite LORD [obj] [the] Nile
(One week/Seven days) passed after Yahweh caused the water in the Nile [River to become red like blood].
