निर्गम 4
Marathi Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
मोशेकरिता पुरावा
4 मग मोशे देवाला म्हणला, “तू मला पाठवले आहेस असे मी इस्राएल लोकांना सांगेन तेव्हा ते माझ्यावर विश्वास ठेवणार नाहीत; ते म्हणतील, ‘परमेश्वराने तुला दर्शन दिले नाही.’”
2 परंतु देव मोशेला म्हणाला, “तुझ्या हातात ते काय आहे?”
मोशेने उत्तर दिले, “ती माझी काठी आहे.”
3 मग देव म्हणाला, “तुझ्या हातातली तुझी काठी जमिनीवर टाक.”
तेव्हा मोशेन तसे केले; आणि त्या काठीचा साप झाला. तेव्हा मोशे घाबरला व त्यापासून बाजूला पळाला. 4 परंतु परमेश्वर मोशेला म्हणला, “तुझा हात पुढे कर व त्या सापाची शेपटी धर.”
तेव्हा मोशेने तसे केल्यावर त्या सापाची पुन्हा काठी झाली. 5 मग देव म्हणाला, “ह्याप्रमाणे तुझ्या काठीचा उपयोग कर म्हणजे मग तू इस्राएली पूर्वजांच्या परमेश्वराला म्हणजेच अब्राहामाचा देव, इसहाकाचा देव व याकोबाचा देव. याला भेटलास असा ते लोक विश्वास धरतील.”
6 मग परमेश्वर मोशेला म्हणाला, “मी तुला आणखी एक चिन्ह किंवा पुरावा देतो. तू तुझा हात झग्याच्या आत तुझ्या छातीवर ठेव”
तेव्हा मोशेने आपला हात झाग्याच्या आत आपल्या छातीवर ठेवला; मग त्याने आपला हात बाहेर काढला तेव्हा त्यावर बफर्सारखे पांढरे डाग दिसले; [a] असा त्याचा हात बदलून गेला.
7 मग देव म्हणाला, “आता पुन्हा तुझा हात झग्याच्या आत तुझ्या छातीवर ठेव.” तेव्हा मोशेने तसे केले. मग त्याने आपला हात तेथून काढला तेव्हा त्याच्यात बदल होऊन तो पुन्हा पूर्वी सारखा चांगला झाला.
8 मग देव बोलला, “तू तुझ्या काठीचा चमत्कार दाखवल्यावरही जर त्या लोकांनी तुझ्यावर विश्वास ठेवला नाही. तर मग हा हाताचा चमत्कार दाखवल्यावर ते तुझ्यावर विश्वास ठेवतील. 9 हे दोन्ही चमत्कार दाखवल्यावरही त्यांनी जर तुझ्यावर विश्वास ठेवला नाही तर मग नाईल नदीचे थोडे पाणी घे आणि ते जमिनीवर ओत; ओतल्याबरोबर त्याचे रक्त होईल.”
10 परंतु मोशे परमेश्वराला म्हणाला, “परंतु परमेश्वरा मी तुला खरे ते सांगतो; मी काही चांगला वक्ता नाही; मला लोकांसमोर कधीही नीट बोलता आलेले नाही. आणि आता तुझ्याबरोबर बोलल्यानंतरही नाही. तुला माहीत आहे की मी सावकाश व अडखळत बोलतो आणि बोलताना मला योग्य, परिणामकारक शब्द सापडत नाहीत;”
11 मग परमेश्वर त्याला म्हणाला, “माणसाचे तोंड कोणी केले? माणसाला बहिरा, मुका, आंधळा किंवा डोळस कोण करतो? मीच की नाही? मी ‘याव्हे’ आहे! होय ना? 12 तेव्हा मी सांगतो, तू आता जा. तू बोलत असताना मी तुझ्याबरोबर असेन. मी योग्य शब्द तुझ्या मुखात घालीन.”
13 परंतु मोशे म्हणाला, “माझ्या परमेश्वरा! मी तुला कळकळीची विनंती करतो की तू दुसऱ्या कोणाला पाठव. मला नको.”
14 परमेश्वर मोशेवर रागावला! परमेश्वर म्हणाला, “मी तुला आणखी मदत देतो. लेवी कुटुंबातील तुझा भाऊ अहरोन याचा मी उपयोग करतो. तो पटाईत वक्ता आहे. तो अगोदरच तुझ्याकडे येण्यास निघाला आहे. तुला भेटल्यावर त्याला आनंद होईल. 15 तो तुझ्याबरोबर फारोकडे येईल. तू काय बोलावेस ते मी तुला सांगेन: मग ते तू अहरोनाला सांग, आणि मग अहरोन योग्य शब्दात फारोशी बोलेल. 16 आणि अहरोन तुझ्या तर्फे लोकांशी बोलेल; तो तुझे मुख होईल आणि त्याने काय बोलावे हे सांगणारा तू त्याला देवासारखा होशील. 17 तर आता जा! तुझी काठी तुझ्या सोबत घे. मी तुझ्याबरोबर आहे हे लोकांना दाखवण्यासाठी त्या काठीचा व इतर चमत्कारांचा उपयोग कर!”
मोशे मिसरला परत जातो
18 मग मोशे आपला सासरा इथ्रो याच्याकडे परत गेला. तो इथ्रोला म्हणाला, “मला मिसरला माझ्या भाऊबंदाकडे जाऊ द्या. ते अद्याप जिवंत आहेत की नाहीत ते मला पाहू द्या.”
इथ्रो म्हणाला, “तू शांततेने जा.”
19 तेव्हा मोशे अद्याप मिद्यानात असताना देव त्याला म्हणाला, “आता मिसरला परत जाणे तुझ्यासाठी सुरक्षिततेचे आहे. जे लोक तुला ठार मारु पाहात होते ते आता मरण पावले आहेत.”
20 तेव्हा मोशेने आपली बायको व आपल्या मुलांना गाढवांवर बसवले व त्यांना घेऊन तो मिसरला माघारी गेला. त्यांने देवाच्या सामर्थ्याने भरलेली आपली काठी बरोबर नेली.
21 मोशे मिसरचा प्रवास करत आसताना देव त्याच्याबरोबर बोलला, देव म्हणाला, “तू फारोशी बोलताना मी तुला जे चमत्कार करण्याची शक्ती दिली आहे त्यायोगे ते चमत्कार त्याला दाखवण्याची आठवण ठेव. परंतु मी फारोचे मन अतिशय कठीण करीन; तो तुम्हाला जाऊ देणार नाही. 22 मग तू फारोला सांग की 23 परमेश्वर म्हणतो, ‘इस्राएल माझा मोठा मुलगा [b] आहे. आणि मी तुला सांगत आहे की तू माझ्या थोरल्या मुलाला माझी उपासना करण्याकरिता जाऊ दे! जर तू माझ्या प्रथम जन्मलेल्या मुलास म्हणजे माझ्या इस्राएल लोकांस जाऊ देण्याचे नाकारशील तर मी तुझ्या प्रथम जन्मलेल्या म्हणजे थोरल्या मुलास ठार मारीन.’”
मोशेच्या मुलाची सुंता होते
24 मोशे मिसरच्या प्रवासात असताना एके ठिकाणी मुक्कामासाठी थांबला. तेव्हा परमेश्वराने मोशेला त्या ठिकाणी गाठून त्याला ठार मारण्याचा [c] प्रयत्न केला. 25 परंतु सिप्पोराने एक गारगोटीची धारदार सुरी घेतली व तिने आपल्या मुलाची सुंता केली. मग तिने मुलाची अग्रत्वचा घेतली आणि ती मोशेच्या पायावर ठेवून ती त्याला म्हणाली, “तू माझा रक्ताने मिळवलेला नवरा आहेस.” 26 सिप्पोरा असे म्हणाली कारण तिला आपल्या मुलाची सुंता करावी लागली. तेव्हा देवाने मोशेला क्षमा केली व त्याला ठार मारले नाही.
देवासमोर मोशे व अहरोन
27 परमेश्वराने अहरोनाला सांगितले होते, “तू वाळवंटात जाऊन मोशेला भेट,” म्हणून अहरोन देवाच्या डोंगरावर म्हणजे होरेब किंवा सिनाय डोंगरावर जाऊन मोशेला भेटला. मोशे भेटल्यावर अहरोनाने त्याचे चुंबन घेतले. 28 परमेश्वराने मोशेला सांगितलेल्या सर्व गोष्टी मोशेने अहरोनाला सांगितल्या व देवाने त्याला का पाठवले तेही सांगितले; तसेच परमेश्वराने मोशेला जे चमत्कार करून दाखवावयाची आज्ञा दिली होती त्याविषयीही त्याने अहरोनाला सांगितले.
29 मग मोशे व अहरोन यांनी जाऊन इस्राएली वंशजाचे सर्व वडीलधारी एकत्र जमवले. 30 नंतर परमेश्वराने मोशेला सांगितलेल्या सर्व गोष्टी अहरोनाने लोकांस कळवल्या; त्यानंतर मोशेने लोकांसमक्ष चमत्कार करून दाखवले. 31 तेव्हा देवानेच मोशेला पाठवले असल्याबद्दल त्यांची खात्री झाली. देवाने त्यांच्या हालअपेष्टा पाहिल्या आहेत व तो त्यांना भेटण्यास आला आहे हे त्यांना माहीत झाले. तेव्हा त्यांनी नमन करून देवाची उपासना केली.
Footnotes
- निर्गम 4:6 मग … डाग दिसले हाताला कोडसारखा काहीतरी कातडीचा रोग झाला होता.
- निर्गम 4:23 मोठा मुलगा म्हणजे कुटुबात जन्मलेले पहिले अपत्य पूर्वीच्या काळी मोठ्या मुलाला फार महत्व असे.
- निर्गम 4:24 ठार मारण्याचा किंवा याचा अर्थ बहुत करून “मोशेच्या सुंते विषयी असावा.”
Exodus 4
EasyEnglish Bible
God shows Moses some strange things
4 Then Moses replied, ‘Perhaps the leaders of Israel will not believe me. Perhaps they will not listen to my message. Perhaps they will say, “The Lord did not really appear to you.” ’
2 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘What is that thing in your hand?’ Moses answered, ‘It is a stick.’
3 The Lord said, ‘Throw it down on the ground.’ So Moses threw it on the ground. Then the stick became a snake! Moses ran away from the snake. 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Take hold of the snake's tail with your hand.’ So Moses caught the snake with his hand. Then it became a stick in his hand again. 5 God said, ‘Do this in front of them. Then they will believe you. They will believe that I, the Lord God, have appeared to you. I am the God that their ancestors worshipped. I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’
6 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Put your hand inside your robe.’ So Moses did this. When he took his hand out again, the skin had become white, like snow. It was the bad disease called leprosy.
7 Then God said, ‘Put your hand back inside your robe again.’ So Moses did that. And when he took his hand out, it was well again, like the rest of his skin!
8 God said, ‘The leaders may not believe you. They may not think that the miracle with the stick shows anything. But they may believe you when you do the second miracle. 9 But they may still not listen to your message. If they will not even believe those two miracles, do this: Take some water from the River Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water that you take from the river will become blood on the ground.’[a]
10 Then Moses said to the Lord, ‘My Lord, I cannot speak well. I speak slowly and I speak with difficulty. I never could speak well. And even now, when you have spoken to me, I still cannot speak well.’
11 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Who has made human mouths? Who makes a person that cannot speak? Who makes a person that cannot hear? Who makes a person who can see, or who cannot see? It is I, the Lord God! 12 Now go! I will help you to speak well. I will teach you what you must say.’
13 But Moses said, ‘My Lord, please send some other person. Do not send me!’
14 Then the Lord became angry with Moses. He said, ‘Aaron, the Levite, is your brother. I know that he can speak very well. Look! He is coming to meet you now. When he sees you, he will be very happy.
15 So this is what you must do. You must speak to him. You must tell him what to say. I will help both of you to speak. And I will teach both of you what you must do. 16 Aaron will speak to the people on your behalf. He will be like your mouth, to speak your message. And you will be like God to him. You will tell him what to say. 17 Take this stick with you and hold it in your hand. You will use it to do the miracles to show that I have sent you.’
Moses returns to Egypt
18 Then Moses went back to Jethro, his wife's father. Moses said to him, ‘Please let me return to my family in Egypt. I must see if they are still alive.’ So Jethro said to Moses, ‘Go in peace.’[b]
19 The Lord had said to Moses while he was still in Midian, ‘Go back to Egypt. All the men who tried to kill you are now dead.’ 20 So Moses put his wife and his sons on a donkey and they started on the journey back to Egypt. And Moses carried the stick of God in his hand.
21 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘When you return to Egypt you must do the signs. Do all the signs that I gave you the power to do. Do them in front of Pharaoh. But I will make Pharaoh angry and cruel. Because of this, he will not let the people go.
22 Then you must speak to Pharaoh. You must say, “The Lord says, Israel is my first son. 23 I have already said to you, Let my son go so that he can worship me. But if you refuse to let him go, I will kill your first son.” ’
24 On the way to Egypt, there was a place where people could rest on their journey. The Lord met Moses there and he wanted to kill Moses. 25 But Zipporah took a sharp stone and she cut off her son's foreskin with the stone. She touched Moses' feet with the foreskin. She said, ‘You are a husband of blood to me.’ 26 So God did not do anything bad to Moses. Then Zipporah said to Moses, ‘You are a husband of blood, because of this circumcision.’[c]
27 The Lord said to Aaron, ‘Go into the desert to meet Moses.’ So Aaron went. He met Moses at the mountain of God and he kissed him. 28 Then Moses told Aaron all that the Lord had told him to say. He also told Aaron about all the special signs. God had commanded Moses to show these signs to the Israelites and to Pharaoh.
29 Then Moses and Aaron went to Egypt. They brought together all the leaders of the Israelites. 30 Aaron told them all the things that the Lord had said to Moses. Then Moses did the signs in front of the people. 31 And the people believed Aaron and Moses. They had heard that the Lord had come to his people. God had seen their hard life and he was sorry for them. They put their heads down and they worshipped God.
Footnotes
- 4:9 These miracles would show the Israelites that Moses spoke with the authority of God.
- 4:18 ‘Go in peace’ means that Jethro agreed with Moses. He wanted Moses to have a good journey and to arrive safely.
- 4:26 A long time before this, God had told Abraham that he must circumcise himself and every male person in his house. All the men that would be born into that family must obey that command. That was the sign of God's promise to Abraham and his family. Because Moses had not circumcised his son, he had not obeyed God's command. Zipporah circumcised their son because God would have killed Moses. Because she obeyed God, Moses did not die.
Exodus 4
King James Version
4 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
5 That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
6 And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
10 And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
14 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
19 And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
21 And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
30 And Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
2006 by Bible League International
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