Exodus 4
1 Moses/I replied, “But what if [the Israeli people] (do not believe me/are not convinced) or not do what I tell them? What if they say, ‘Yahweh did not appear to you!’”
Amalalu, Mousese da Hina Godema amane adole i, “Be Isala: ili dunu da na sia: dafawaneyale hame dawa: sea amola na sia: hame nabasea, na da adi hamoma: bela: ? Ilia da Di da nama hame misi amo sia: sea, na da adi hamoma: bela: ?”
2 Yahweh said to him/me, “[Look at] that thing you are holding in your hand. What is it?” He/I replied, “A (walking stick/shepherd’s stick).”
Amaiba: le, Hina Gode da ema amane adole ba: i, “Dia loboga gagui da adila: ?” E bu adole i, “Amo da dagulu.”
3 He said, “Throw it down on the ground!” So, he/I threw it on the ground, and it became a snake! And he/I ran/jumped away from it.
Hina Gode da amane sia: i, “Amo dagulu osoboga ligia guduma!” Mousese da ligia guduli, dagulu da afadenene bu sa: ya: be hamoi. Amalalu, Mousese da beda: iba: le amoga hobea: i.
4 But Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Reach down and pick it up by its tail!” So he/I reached down and caught it, and [when he/I picked it up], it became a stick in his/my hand [again.]
Amalalu, Hina Gode da Mousesema amane sia: i, “Defea! Dia lobo ligia guduli, sa: ya: be ea la: go gaguli gaguia gadoma.” Amaiba: le, Mousese da ea lobo ligia guduli, sa: ya: be gaguli, sa: ya: be da bu afadenene dagulu ba: i.
5 Yahweh said, “[Do the same thing in front of the Israeli people], in order that they may believe that [I], Yahweh God, the one Abraham and Isaac and Jacob worshiped, truly appeared to you.”
Hina Gode da amane sia: i, “Di da Isala: ili dunu ba: ma: ne amo hou hamoma. Ilia da Hina Gode amo ilia aowalalia Gode, A:ibalaha: me, Aisage amola Ya: igobe ilia Gode, da dima misi dagoi, ilia da amo dafawaneyale dawa: ma: ne amo hou hamoma.”
6 Yahweh spoke to Moses/me again, saying “Put your hand inside your robe [MTY]!” He/I did that. And when he/I took it out again, [surprisingly], his/my hand was white. It had a skin disease [that made it] as white as snow.
Hina Gode da Mousesema eno amane sia: i, “Dia lobo amo dia abula ganodini wamo salima.” Mousese da Gode Ea sia: i defele hamoi. E da ea lobo bu duga: le, amo da aiya bagade moloba: agoai ba: i. (‘lebelosi’ oloi).
7 Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your robe [MTY]!” So he/I did that, and when he/I took it out again, surprisingly, it was normal again, just like the rest of his/my body!
Amalalu, Hina Gode da amane sia: i, “Dia lobo bu dia abula ganodini wamo salima.” E da agoane hamoi. E lobo bu duga: le, aiya huluane da bahoi dagoi ba: i amola ea lobo gadofo da ea da: i hodo eno defele ba: i.
8 God said, “[You can do that in front of the Israeli people, too]. If they do not pay attention to what you say because of [seeing] the first miracle, they will (believe [you/be convinced) when you perform] the second miracle.
Hina Gode da amane sia: i, “Ilia da dia hidadea hamoi musa: hame ba: su hou amo dafawaneyale hame dawa: sea, ilia da amo hou ba: sea, dia sia: dafawaneyale dawa: mu.
9 If they do not believe you or do what you say, even [after you perform] those two miracles, get some water from the Nile [River] and pour it on the ground. [When you do that], the water from the river that you pour on the ground will become blood [MTY] (OR, [red like] blood).”
Be ilia amo musa: hame ba: su hou aduna ba: sea, dia sia: dafawaneyale hame dawa: sea, defea, Naile Hano amoga hano lale, hafoga: i osoboga sogadigima. Amasea, hano da afadenene, bu maga: me hamoi dagoi ba: mu.”
10 Moses/I replied, “O Yahweh! I am not an eloquent [speaker]! I was not an eloquent speaker before, and I have not become one since you started talking to me! I am not a good speaker [MTY], and I speak very slowly.”
Be Mousese da amane sia: i, “Hame mabu, Hina! Dia na mae asunasima! Na da sia: noga: le adole imunu hame dawa: Di da nama sia: beba: le, na hou da hame afadenei. Na sia: da noga: i hame, dioi bagade gala.”
11 Then Yahweh said to him/me, “[You seem to forget] who it is that makes people able to speak [RHQ]! Who is it that enables people to be unable to speak or unable to hear, or able to see or not to see? It is I, Yahweh [RHQ]!
Be Hina Gode da ema bu adole i, “Nowa da osobo bagade dunuma lafi iahabela: ? Nowa da dunu ge ga: i o sia: hamedei hamosala: ? Nowa da dunu ba: ma: ne si iaha o mae ba: ma: ne si dofosala: ? Amo da Ni fawane. Na fawane da Hina Gode!
12 So start going [to Egypt], and I will help you to speak [MTY], and I will tell you what you should say.”
Di wali masa! Na da dia sia: fidimu amola di adole ima: ne, Na da dima sia: imunu.”
13 But he/I replied, “O, Yahweh, I ask you, please send someone else [instead]!”
Be Mousese da bu adole i, “Hame mabu, Hina! Eno dunu asunasima.”
14 Then Yahweh became very angry with Moses/me. He said, “[What about] your [older] brother Aaron, who is [also] a descendant of Levi? I know that he is a very good/eloquent speaker. He is actually on his way here [right now], and he will be very happy to see you.
Amo sia: nababeba: le, Hina Gode da Mousesema ougi galu. E amane sia: i, “Defea! Dia ola Elane (Lifai fi dunu) amo dawa: ma. Ea sia: da noga: iwane Na dawa: E da wali di yosia: musa: logoga manebe. E da di hahawane ba: mu.
15 You can talk to him and tell him what to say [MTY], and I will help both of you [SYN] to know what to say [MTY]. And I will tell you both what you should do.
Di sia: musa: dawa: i, amo ema sia: ma. Na da alia sia: be amo fidimu amola ali da eno dunu olelema: ne, alima sia: olelemu.
16 He will speak for you to the [Israeli] people. He will be (your spokesman/as though he was your mouth) [MET], and you will be to him as though you are [his] god.
E da dia lafi defele esalebe ba: mu. E da Isala: ili dunu ilima dia sia: olelemu. Amasea, di da Hina Gode defele, e da sia: adole imunusa: ema olelemu.
17 [Be sure] to take with you the walking/shepherd’s stick [that is in your hand], because you will perform miracles with it.”
Di ahoasea, amo dagulu gaguli masa. Di da amo daguluga musa: hame ba: su hou hamomu.”
18 Moses/I returned to his/my father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me go back to Egypt, to see my fellow Israelis there. I want to know if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses/me, “Go, and may [God give you inner] peace.”
Amalalu, Mousese da esoa: Yedelouma asili, amane sia: i, “Na da na fi Idibidi soge ganodini amo ilia hou ba: la masunu da defeala: ?” Yedelou da defea sia: ne, Mousesema hahawane ‘asigibio’ sia: i.
19 Yahweh said to Moses/me [before he/I left] Midian, “You can [safely] return to Egypt, because the men who were wanting to kill you [MTY] are [now] dead.”
Mousese da Midia: ne soge ganodini esaloba, Hina Gode da ema amane sia: i dagoi, “Dia Idibidi sogega buhagima. Dunu huluane da di fanelegemusa: dawa: i amo da bogoi dagoi.”
20 So Moses/I took his/my wife and sons and put them on donkeys, and they/we returned to Egypt. And Moses/I took in his/my hand the stick that God [told him/me to take along].
Amaiba: le, Mousese da idua amola egefe aduna amo dougi amoga fila heda: ma: ne hamone, Idibidi sogega doaga: musa: oule asi. Mousese da dagulu amo Gode da gaguli masa: ne sia: i, amo gaguli asi.
21 Yahweh said to Moses/me, “When you return to Egypt, be sure to perform all the miracles that I have given you power [to do], while the king is watching. But I will make him stubborn [IDM], with the result that he will not let the Israeli people leave [Egypt].
Hina Gode da bu Mousesema amane sia: i, “Di da wali Idibidi sogega buhagimuba: le, di da Idibidi hina bagade (Felou) ba: ma: ne, musa: hame ba: su hou dia hamoma: ne Na da dima gasa i, amo huluane hamoma. Be na da Felou ea dogo igi agoane hamomu. Amaiba: le, e da Na fi dunu ilia gadili masunu logo hame doasimu.
22 Then say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh says: “The Israeli [people] [MTY] are [as dear to] me as firstborn sons [MET].
Amasea, di da ema amane sia: ma, ‘Hina Gode da amane sia: sa; Isala: ili da Na magobo mano.
23 I told you to let my people [MTY] leave [Egypt], in order that they may worship me [in the desert]. If you refuse to let them go, I warn you, I will kill your firstborn son!”’”
Na da dima nagofe Nama nodone sia: ne gadomusa: gadili masa: ne, logo doasima: ne sia: i. Be di da higa: i galu. Amaiba: le, Na da wali dia magobo dunu mano fanelegemu.’”
24 [One night], as they were camping on the way [to Egypt], Yahweh appeared to Moses/me. He wanted/threatened to kill Moses/me [for disobeying his command that boys/sons be circumcised].
Mousese da Idibidiga doaga: musa: logoga ahoanoba, sogebi afae amogai ouesalu golai. Amogai, Hina Gode da ema misini, Mousese fanelegemusa: dawa: i.
25 Then [his/my wife] Zipporah took a flint knife and circumcised her son. Then she touched the boy’s feet (OR, genitals) with the piece of skin [she had cut off], and she said, “The blood [which flowed when I circumcised you] will protect you [from being harmed by Yahweh] [MET].”
Be Mousese idua Siboula da debesu sua: ne, egefe gadofo damuni, amo Mousese ea emo da: iya ligisi. Gadofo damusu hou dawa: beba: le, e da Mousesema amane sia: i, “Di da nama maga: me egoa agoane galebe!” Amaiba: le, Hina Gode da Mousese hame fanelegei.
26 She said to him, “You are safe now [MET] because you have been circumcised.” So Yahweh did not harm her son.
27 Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the desert to meet/see Moses!” So he went [there from Egypt] and met him/me at [Sinai], the mountain dedicated to God, and [greeted him/me by] kissing him/me [on the cheek].
Be Hina Gode da Elanema amane sia: i dagoi, “Di wadela: i hafoga: i soge amoga masa. Amogai, di Mousese gousa: ma.” Amaiba: le, e da hadigi goumi (Sainai Goumi) amogai Mousese gousa: i. E da Mousese gousa: le, nonogoi.
28 Moses/I told Aaron everything that Yahweh had said to him/me when he told him/me to return to Egypt. He/I also told Aaron about all the miracles that Yahweh told him/me to perform.
Amalalu, Mousese da Hina Gode ea adoi huluane (E da Idibidi sogega buhagima: ne sia: i) amo Elanema olelei. Amola musa: hame ba: su hou Hina Gode da e hamoma: ne sia: i, amo Elanema olelei.
29 [So Aaron and Moses/I] returned [to Egypt]. There they/we gathered together all the Israeli elders/leaders.
Amaiba: le, Mousese amola Elane ela da Idibidi sogega asi. Amogai, ilia da Isala: ili ouligisu dunu huluane gilisi.
30 Aaron told them everything that Yahweh had told Moses/me, and Aaron performed [all] the miracles as the people watched.
Elane da ilima hou huluane Hina Gode da Mousesema sia: i amo ilima olelei. Dunu huluane ba: ma: ne, Mousese da musa: hame ba: su hou huluane hamosu.
31 They believed [that what they/we were saying was true]. When they heard that Yahweh had seen how the Israeli people were being cruelly oppressed and that he was going to help them, they bowed down and worshiped [Yahweh].
Amalalu, Isala: ili dunu fi da dafawaneyale dawa: i. Ilia Hina Gode da ilima misi dagoi amola ilia se nabasu huluane E da ba: i dagoi, amo dafawaneyale dawa: i. Amo dawa: beba: le, ilia da beguduli, Godema nodone sia: ne gadoi.
