出埃及 4
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
神赐摩西的印证
4 摩西回答：“看哪，他们必不信我，也不听我的话；因为他们必说：‘耶和华并没有向你显现。’” 2 耶和华问摩西：“那在你手里的是甚么？”他说：“是手杖。” 3 耶和华说：“把它丢在地上。”摩西把它一丢在地上，它就变了蛇；摩西就逃跑，离开了牠。 4 耶和华对摩西说：“伸出你的手来，捉住蛇的尾巴。”摩西就伸出手来，紧握着牠，牠在摩西的掌中又变回了手杖。 5 “这样就使他们相信耶和华他们祖宗的 神，就是亚伯拉罕的 神、以撒的 神、雅各的 神曾向你显现了。” 6 耶和华又再对摩西说：“现在把你的手放进怀里。”摩西就把手放进怀里；等他把手抽出来的时候，手就长满了痲风，像雪那样白。 7 耶和华说：“把你的手再放进怀里。”摩西就把手再放进怀里；等他把手从怀里抽出来的时候，手就恢复过来，像身上别处的肉一样。 8 耶和华又说：“如果他们不信你，也不听从头一个神迹的话，他们必信随后来的神迹。 9 如果连这两个神迹他们也不信，也不听你的话，你就从河里取些水，倒在旱地上；你从河里取来的水就必在旱地上变成血。”
亚伦作摩西的代言人
10 摩西对耶和华说：“主啊，我不是个会说话的人；以前不是，自从你对仆人说话以后也不是；因为我本是拙口笨舌的。” 11 耶和华对他说：“谁造人的口呢？谁使人口哑、耳聋、眼明、眼瞎呢？不是我耶和华吗？ 12 现在去吧，我必赐你口才，指教你当说的。” 13 摩西说：“主啊，请你差派你愿意差派的人。” 14 耶和华向摩西发怒，说：“不是有你的哥哥利未人亚伦吗？我知道他是有口才的；他现在出来要迎接你。他看见了你，心里就快乐。 15 你要对他说话，把你要说的话放在他的口里；我必与你的口同在，也与他的口同在；我必指教你们当行的事。 16 他要替你向人民说话，他要作你的口，你要作他的 神。 17 这手杖你要拿在手里，用来行神迹。”
摩西返回埃及
18 于是，摩西起程回到他岳父叶忒罗那里，对他说：“请你容我离开这里，回到我在埃及的同胞那里，看看他们是否还在。”叶忒罗对摩西说：“你可以平平安安地去吧。” 19 耶和华在米甸对摩西说：“你要起程，回到埃及去，因为那些寻索你命的人都死了。” 20 摩西就带着他的妻子和孩子，让他们骑在驴上，向着埃及地回去了；摩西手里拿着 神的杖。 21 耶和华对摩西说：“你起程回到埃及去的时候，要留意我交在你手里的一切奇事，把它们行在法老面前；我却要使他的心刚硬，他就不让人民离开。 22 你要对法老说：‘耶和华这样说：以色列是我的长子。 23 我曾对你说，要让我的儿子离开这里，好叫他事奉我。你还是拒绝让他离开，看哪！我必杀你的长子。’”
24 在路上住宿的地方，耶和华遇见了摩西，就想要杀他。 25 西坡拉就拿了一把石刀，把她儿子的包皮割下来，把它丢到摩西的脚上，说：“你真是我的血郎了！” 26 这样，耶和华才放了他。那时西坡拉说：“你是血郎，是因为割礼的缘故。”
27 耶和华对亚伦说：“你到旷野去迎接摩西。”他就去了；他在 神的山遇见了摩西，就和他亲吻。 28 摩西把耶和华派他所说的一切话，和吩咐他所行的一切神迹都告诉了亚伦。 29 摩西和亚伦就去召集以色列人的众长老。 30 亚伦把耶和华对摩西所说的一切话都说了一遍，并且在人民的眼前行了这些神迹。 31 人民就相信了；他们听见耶和华眷顾以色列人，也鉴察了他们的痛苦，就俯伏敬拜。
出埃及 4
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
杖变蛇为证
4 摩西回答说：“他们必不信我，也不听我的话，必说：‘耶和华并没有向你显现。’” 2 耶和华对摩西说：“你手里是什么？”他说：“是杖。” 3 耶和华说：“丢在地上。”他一丢下去，就变做蛇，摩西便跑开。 4 耶和华对摩西说：“伸出手来，拿住它的尾巴，它必在你手中仍变为杖。 5 如此好叫他们信耶和华他们祖宗的神，就是亚伯拉罕的神、以撒的神、雅各的神，是向你显现了。”
手生大麻风为证
6 耶和华又对他说：“把手放在怀里。”他就把手放在怀里，及至抽出来，不料，手长了大麻风，有雪那样白。 7 耶和华说：“再把手放在怀里。”他就再把手放在怀里，及至从怀里抽出来，不料，手已经复原，与周身的肉一样。 8 又说：“倘或他们不听你的话，也不信头一个神迹，他们必信第二个神迹。 9 这两个神迹若都不信，也不听你的话，你就从河里取些水，倒在旱地上，你从河里取的水必在旱地上变做血。”
10 摩西对耶和华说：“主啊，我素日不是能言的人，就是从你对仆人说话以后，也是这样。我本是拙口笨舌的。” 11 耶和华对他说：“谁造人的口呢？谁使人口哑、耳聋、目明、眼瞎呢？岂不是我耶和华吗？ 12 现在去吧，我必赐你口才，指教你所当说的话。” 13 摩西说：“主啊，你愿意打发谁，就打发谁去吧！” 14 耶和华向摩西发怒说：“不是有你的哥哥利未人亚伦吗？我知道他是能言的，现在他出来迎接你，他一见你，心里就欢喜。 15 你要将当说的话传给他，我也要赐你和他口才，又要指教你们所当行的事。 16 他要替你对百姓说话，你要以他当做口，他要以你当做神。 17 你手里要拿这杖，好行神迹。”
耶和华命摩西行奇事于法老前
18 于是，摩西回到他岳父叶忒罗那里，对他说：“求你容我回去见我在埃及的弟兄，看他们还在不在。”叶忒罗对摩西说：“你可以平平安安地去吧。” 19 耶和华在米甸对摩西说：“你要回埃及去，因为寻索你命的人都死了。” 20 摩西就带着妻子和两个儿子，叫他们骑上驴，回埃及地去。摩西手里拿着神的杖。 21 耶和华对摩西说：“你回到埃及的时候，要留意将我指示你的一切奇事行在法老面前。但我要使[a]他的心刚硬，他必不容百姓去。 22 你要对法老说：‘耶和华这样说：以色列是我的儿子，我的长子。 23 我对你说过容我的儿子去，好侍奉我，你还是不肯容他去。看哪，我要杀你的长子。’”
24 摩西在路上住宿的地方，耶和华遇见他，想要杀他。 25 西坡拉就拿一块火石，割下他儿子的阳皮，丢在摩西脚前，说：“你真是我的血郎了！” 26 这样，耶和华才放了他。西坡拉说：“你因割礼就是血郎了。”
27 耶和华对亚伦说：“你往旷野去迎接摩西。”他就去，在神的山遇见摩西，和他亲嘴。 28 摩西将耶和华打发他所说的言语和嘱咐他所行的神迹都告诉了亚伦。 29 摩西、亚伦就去招聚以色列的众长老。 30 亚伦将耶和华对摩西所说的一切话述说了一遍，又在百姓眼前行了那些神迹。 31 百姓就信了。以色列人听见耶和华眷顾他们，鉴察他们的困苦，就低头下拜。
Footnotes
- 出埃及 4:21 或作：任凭。下同。
Exodus 4
Complete Jewish Bible
4 Moshe replied, “But I’m certain they won’t believe me, and they won’t listen to what I say, because they’ll say, ‘Adonai did not appear to you.’” 2 Adonai answered him, “What is that in your hand?” and he said, “A staff.” 3 He said, “Throw it on the ground!” and he threw it on the ground. It turned into a snake, and Moshe recoiled from it. 4 Then Adonai said to Moshe, “Put your hand out and take it by the tail.” He reached out with his hand and took hold of it, and it became a staff in his hand. 5 “This is so that they will believe that Adonai, the God of their fathers, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz’chak and the God of Ya‘akov, has appeared to you!”
6 Furthermore Adonai said to him, “Now put your hand inside your coat.” He put his hand in his coat; and when he took it out his hand was leprous, as white as snow. 7 Then God said, “Now put your hand back in your coat.” He put his hand back in his coat; and when he took it out, it was as healthy as the rest of his body. 8 “If they won’t believe you or heed the evidence of the first sign, they will be convinced by the second. 9 But if they aren’t persuaded even by both these signs and still won’t listen to what you say, then take some water from the river, and pour it on the ground. The water you take from the river will turn into blood on the dry land.”
10 Moshe said to Adonai, “Oh, Adonai, I’m a terrible speaker. I always have been, and I’m no better now, even after you’ve spoken to your servant! My words come slowly, my tongue moves slowly.” 11 Adonai answered him, “Who gives a person a mouth? Who makes a person dumb or deaf, keen-sighted or blind? Isn’t it I, Adonai? 12 Now, therefore, go; and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what to say.”
13 But he replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else — anyone you want!” 14 At this, Adonai’s anger blazed up against Moshe; he said, “Don’t you have a brother, Aharon the Levi? I know that he’s a good speaker. In fact, here he is now, coming out to meet you; and he’ll be happy to see you. 15 You will speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and his, teaching you both what to do. 16 Thus he will be your spokesman to the people, in effect; for you, he will be a mouth; and for him, you will be like God. 17 Now take this staff in your hand, because you need it to perform the signs.”
(vi) 18 Moshe left, returned to Yitro his father-in-law and said to him, “I beg you to let me go and return to my kinsmen in Egypt, to see if they are still alive.” Yitro said to Moshe, “Go in peace.” 19 Adonai said to Moshe in Midyan, “Go on back to Egypt, because all the men who wanted to kill you are dead.” 20 So Moshe took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and started out for Egypt. Moshe took God’s staff in his hand. 21 Adonai said to Moshe, “When you get back to Egypt, make sure that you do before Pharaoh every one of the wonders I have enabled you to do. Nevertheless, I am going to make him hardhearted, and he will refuse to let the people go. 22 Then you are to tell Pharaoh: ‘Adonai says, “Isra’el is my firstborn son. 23 I have told you to let my son go in order to worship me, but you have refused to let him go. Well, then, I will kill your firstborn son!”’”
24 At a lodging-place on the way, Adonai met Moshe and would have killed him, 25 had not Tzipporah taken a flintstone and cut off the foreskin of her son. She threw it at his feet, saying, “What a bloody bridegroom you are for me!” 26 But then, God let Moshe be. She added, “A bloody bridegroom because of the circumcision!”
27 Adonai said to Aharon, “Go into the desert to meet Moshe.” He went, met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28 Moshe told him everything Adonai had said in sending him, including all the signs he had ordered him to perform. 29 Then Moshe and Aharon went and gathered together all the leaders of the people of Isra’el. 30 Aharon said everything Adonai had told Moshe, who then performed the signs for the people to see. 31 The people believed; when they heard that Adonai had remembered the people of Isra’el and seen how they were oppressed, they bowed their heads and worshipped.
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.
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