Exodus 4
1 Responding, Moses said, “They will not believe me, and they will not listen to my voice, but they will say: ‘The Lord 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 Therefore, he said to him, “What is that you hold in your hand?” He answered, “A staff.”
耶和華對摩西說：「你手裏是甚麼？」他說：「是杖。」
3 And the Lord said, “Cast it down upon the ground.” He cast it down, and it was turned into a snake, so that Moses fled away.
耶和華說：「丟在地上。」他一丟下去，就變作蛇；摩西便跑開。
4 And the Lord said, “Reach out your hand, and take hold of its tail.” He reached out his hand and took hold, and it was turned into a staff.
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 “So may they believe,” he said, “that the Lord God of their fathers, 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 And the Lord said again, “Put your hand into your bosom.” And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it out leprous, resembling 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 “Put your hand back,” he said, “into your bosom.” He put it back and brought it out again, and it was 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 “If they will not believe you,” he said, “and will not listen to the sermon of the first sign, then they will believe the word of the subsequent 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 But if they will not believe even these two signs, and they will not listen to your voice: take from the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land, and whatever you will have drawn from the river will be turned into blood.”
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 Moses said: “I beg you, O Lord, I was not eloquent yesterday or the day before. And from the time that you have spoken to your servant, I have a greater impediment and slowness 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 The Lord said to him: “Who made the mouth of man? And who has formed the mute and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? Was it not I?
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 Go on, therefore, and I will be in your mouth. And I will teach you what you shall say.”
現在去吧，我必賜你口才，指教你所當說的話。」
13 But he said, “I beg you, O Lord, send whomever else you would send.”
摩西說：「主啊，你願意打發誰，就打發誰去吧！」
14 The Lord, being angry at Moses, said: “Aaron the Levite is your brother. I know that he is eloquent. Behold, he is going out to meet you, and seeing you, he will rejoice in 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 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth. And I will be in your mouth and in his mouth, and I will reveal to you what you must 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 for you to the people, and he will be your mouth. But you will be with him in those things that pertain to 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 Also, take this staff into your hand; with it you will accomplish the signs.”
你手裏要拿這杖，好行神蹟。」
18 Moses went forth, and he returned to Jethro, his father in law, and he said to him, “I shall go and return to my brothers in Egypt, so that I may see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to him, “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 And so the Lord said to Moses in Midian: “Go, and return to Egypt. For all those who sought your life have died.”
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 Therefore, Moses took his wife and his sons, and he placed them upon a donkey, and he returned into Egypt, carrying 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 And the Lord said to him, as he was returning to Egypt: “See that you accomplish, in the sight of Pharaoh, all the wonders that I have placed in your hand. I will harden his heart, and he will not release the people.
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 And you shall say to him: ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.
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 I have said to you: Release my son, so that he may serve me. And you were not willing to release him. Behold, I will put to death your firstborn son.’”
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 And while he was on the journey, at an inn, the Lord met him, and he was willing to kill him.
摩西在路上住宿的地方，耶和華遇見他，想要殺他。
25 For this reason, Zipporah took a very sharp stone, and she circumcised the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, “You are a bloody spouse to me.”
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 And he released him, after she had said, “You are a bloody spouse,” 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 Then the Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the desert to meet Moses.” And he went directly to meet him on the mountain of God, and he 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 And Moses explained to Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs which he had commanded.
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 And they arrived at the same time, and they gathered together all the elders of the sons of Israel.
摩西、亞倫就去招聚以色列的眾長老。
30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses. And he accomplished the signs 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 and the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the sons of Israel, and that he had looked with favor upon their affliction. And falling prostrate, they worshiped.
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。
