Exodus 4
1 Moses answered, “But what if they do not believe me or listen to me but say instead, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you'?”
摩西回答說：「他們必不信我，也不聽我的話，必說：『耶和華並沒有向你顯現。』」
2 Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?” Moses said, “A staff.”
耶和華對摩西說：「你手裏是甚麼？」他說：「是杖。」
3 Yahweh said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake. Moses ran back from it.
耶和華說：「丟在地上。」他一丟下去，就變作蛇；摩西便跑開。
4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Reach out and take it by the tail.” So he reached out and took hold of the snake. It became a staff in his hand again.
耶和華對摩西說：「伸出手來，拿住牠的尾巴，牠必在你手中仍變為杖；
5 “This is so they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
如此好叫他們信耶和華－他們祖宗的上帝，就是亞伯拉罕的上帝，以撒的上帝，雅各的上帝，是向你顯現了。」
6 Yahweh also said to him, “Now put your hand inside your robe.” So Moses put his hand inside his robe. When he brought it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
耶和華又對他說：「把手放在懷裏。」他就把手放在懷裏，及至抽出來，不料，手長了大痲瘋，有雪那樣白。
7 Yahweh said, “Put your hand inside your robe again.” So Moses put his hand inside his robe, and when he brought it out, he saw that it was made healthy again, like the rest of his flesh.
耶和華說：「再把手放在懷裏。」他就再把手放在懷裏，及至從懷裏抽出來，不料，手已經復原，與周身的肉一樣；
8 Yahweh said, “If they do not believe you—if they do not pay attention to the first sign of my power or believe in it, then they will believe the second sign.
又說：「倘或他們不聽你的話，也不信頭一個神蹟，他們必信第二個神蹟。
9 If they do not believe even these two signs of my power, or listen to you, then take some water from the river and pour it on the dry land. The water that you take will become blood on the dry land.”
這兩個神蹟若都不信，也不聽你的話，你就從河裏取些水，倒在旱地上，你從河裏取的水必在旱地上變作血。」
10 Then Moses said to Yahweh, “Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you spoke to your servant. I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
摩西對耶和華說：「主啊，我素日不是能言的人，就是從你對僕人說話以後，也是這樣。我本是拙口笨舌的。」
11 Yahweh said to him, “Who is it who made man's mouth? Who makes a man mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?
耶和華對他說：「誰造人的口呢？誰使人口啞、耳聾、目明、眼瞎呢？豈不是我－耶和華嗎？
12 So now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what to say.”
現在去吧，我必賜你口才，指教你所當說的話。」
13 But Moses said, “Lord, please send anyone else, anyone whom you wish to send.”
摩西說：「主啊，你願意打發誰，就打發誰去吧！」
14 Then Yahweh became angry with Moses. He said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Moreover, he is coming to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
耶和華向摩西發怒說：「不是有你的哥哥利未人亞倫嗎？我知道他是能言的；現在他出來迎接你，他一見你，心裏就歡喜。
15 You will speak to him and put the words to say into his mouth. I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will show you both what to do.
你要將當說的話傳給他；我也要賜你和他口才，又要指教你們所當行的事。
16 He will speak to the people for you. He will be your mouth, and you will be to him like me, God.
他要替你對百姓說話；你要以他當作口，他要以你當作上帝。
17 You will take in your hand this staff. With it you will do the signs.”
你手裏要拿這杖，好行神蹟。」
18 So Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me go so I may return to my relatives who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
於是，摩西回到他岳父葉忒羅那裏，對他說：「求你容我回去見我在埃及的弟兄，看他們還在不在。」葉忒羅對摩西說：「你可以平平安安地去吧！」
19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt, for all the men who were trying to take your life are dead.”
耶和華在米甸對摩西說：「你要回埃及去，因為尋索你命的人都死了。」
20 Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on a donkey. He returned to the land of Egypt, and he took the staff of God in his hand.
摩西就帶着妻子和兩個兒子，叫他們騎上驢，回埃及地去。摩西手裏拿着上帝的杖。
21 Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.
耶和華對摩西說：「你回到埃及的時候，要留意將我指示你的一切奇事行在法老面前。但我要使他的心剛硬，他必不容百姓去。
22 You must say to Pharaoh, 'This is what Yahweh says: Israel is my son, my firstborn,
你要對法老說：『耶和華這樣說：以色列是我的兒子，我的長子。
23 and I say to you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But since you have refused to let him go, I will certainly kill your son, your firstborn.'”
我對你說過：容我的兒子去，好事奉我。你還是不肯容他去。看哪，我要殺你的長子。』」
24 Now on the way, when they stopped for the night, Yahweh met Moses and tried to kill him.
摩西在路上住宿的地方，耶和華遇見他，想要殺他。
25 Then Zipporah took a flint knife and cut off the foreskin of her son, and touched it to his feet. Then she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom to me by blood.”
西坡拉就拿一塊火石，割下他兒子的陽皮，丟在摩西腳前，說：「你真是我的血郎了。」
26 So Yahweh let him alone. She said, “You are a bridegroom of blood” because of the circumcision.
這樣，耶和華才放了他。西坡拉說：「你因割禮就是血郎了。」
27 Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” Aaron went, met him at the mountain of God, and kissed him.
耶和華對亞倫說：「你往曠野去迎接摩西。」他就去，在上帝的山遇見摩西，和他親嘴。
28 Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh that he had sent him to say and about all the signs of Yahweh's power that he had commanded him to do.
摩西將耶和華打發他所說的言語和囑咐他所行的神蹟都告訴了亞倫。
29 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the Israelites.
摩西、亞倫就去招聚以色列的眾長老。
30 Aaron spoke all the words that Yahweh had spoken to Moses. He also displayed the signs of Yahweh's power in the sight of the people.
亞倫將耶和華對摩西所說的一切話述說了一遍，又在百姓眼前行了那些神蹟，
31 The people believed. When they heard that Yahweh had observed the Israelites and that he had seen their oppression, then they bowed their heads and worshiped him.
百姓就信了。以色列人聽見耶和華眷顧他們，鑒察他們的困苦，就低頭下拜。
