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摩西亚伦受神命

耶和华对摩西说:“我使你在法老面前代替神,你的哥哥亚伦是替你说话的。 凡我所吩咐你的,你都要说。你的哥哥亚伦要对法老说,容以色列人出他的地。 我要使法老的心刚硬,也要在埃及地多行神迹奇事。 但法老必不听你们,我要伸手重重地刑罚埃及,将我的军队以色列民从埃及地领出来。 我伸手攻击埃及,将以色列人从他们中间领出来的时候,埃及人就要知道我是耶和华。” 摩西亚伦这样行,耶和华怎样吩咐他们,他们就照样行了。 摩西亚伦与法老说话的时候,摩西八十岁,亚伦八十三岁。

杖变蛇为证

耶和华晓谕摩西亚伦说: “法老若对你们说:‘你们行件奇事吧’,你就吩咐亚伦说:‘把杖丢在法老面前,使杖变做蛇。’” 10 摩西亚伦进去见法老,就照耶和华所吩咐的行。亚伦把杖丢在法老和臣仆面前,杖就变做蛇。 11 于是法老召了博士和术士来,他们是埃及行法术的,也用邪术照样而行。 12 他们各人丢下自己的杖,杖就变做蛇,但亚伦的杖吞了他们的杖。

法老刚硬其心

13 法老心里刚硬,不肯听从摩西亚伦,正如耶和华所说的。

14 耶和华对摩西说:“法老心里固执,不肯容百姓去。 15 明日早晨,他出来往水边去,你要往河边迎接他,手里要拿着那变过蛇的杖, 16 对他说:‘耶和华希伯来人的神打发我来见你,说:“容我的百姓去,好在旷野侍奉我”,到如今你还是不听。 17 耶和华这样说:我要用我手里的杖击打河中的水,水就变做血,因此你必知道我是耶和华。 18 河里的鱼必死,河也要腥臭,埃及人就要厌恶吃这河里的水。’” 19 耶和华晓谕摩西说:“你对亚伦说:‘把你的杖伸在埃及所有的水以上,就是在他们的江、河、池、塘以上,叫水都变做血。在埃及遍地,无论在木器中、石器中,都必有血。’”

水变血之灾

20 摩西亚伦就照耶和华所吩咐的行。亚伦在法老和臣仆眼前举杖击打河里的水,河里的水都变做血了。 21 河里的鱼死了,河也腥臭了,埃及人就不能吃这河里的水。埃及遍地都有了血。 22 埃及行法术的,也用邪术照样而行。法老心里刚硬,不肯听摩西亚伦,正如耶和华所说的。 23 法老转身进宫,也不把这事放在心上。 24 埃及人都在河的两边挖地,要得水喝,因为他们不能喝这河里的水。 25 耶和华击打河以后满了七天。

Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh

And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like (A)God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your (B)prophet. (C)You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. But (D)I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I (E)multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. The Egyptians (F)shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.” Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. Now Moses was (G)eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “When Pharaoh says to you, (H)‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’” 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the (I)magicians of Egypt, also (J)did the same by their secret arts. 12 For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Still (K)Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, (L)as the Lord had said.

The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood

14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. 15 (M)Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water, and stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him. Take in your hand (N)the staff that turned into a (O)serpent. 16 And you shall say to him, ‘The (P)Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, (Q)that they may serve me in the wilderness.” But so far, you have not obeyed. 17 Thus says the Lord, “By this (R)you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and (S)it shall turn into blood. 18 The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will (T)grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’” 19 And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and (U)stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

20 Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he (V)lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the (W)water in the Nile turned into blood. 21 And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians (X)could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. 22 But (Y)the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So (Z)Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as (AA)the Lord had said. 23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart. 24 And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.

25 Seven full days passed after the Lord had struck the Nile.