出埃及记 4 – CCB & NIVUK

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出埃及记 4:1-31

上帝赐摩西能力

1摩西回答说:“他们不会相信我或听我的话,他们会说,‘耶和华根本没有向你显现。’” 2耶和华对摩西说:“你手里拿的是什么?”摩西说:“是一根手杖。” 3耶和华说:“把它丢在地上!”于是,摩西把杖丢在地上,杖变成了一条蛇。摩西连忙跑开。 4耶和华说:“你伸手抓住它的尾巴!”摩西就伸手抓蛇的尾巴,蛇在他手中变回了杖。 5耶和华说:“这样,他们就会相信他们祖先的上帝耶和华,就是亚伯拉罕以撒雅各的上帝,曾经向你显现。”

6耶和华又说:“把手放进怀里。”摩西把手放进怀里,手抽出来的时候,竟患了麻风病,像雪一样白。 7耶和华说:“再把手放进怀里。”摩西又把手放进怀里,这次再抽出来的时候,手已经复原,跟其他地方的皮肉一样。 8耶和华说:“纵然他们不听你的话,不信第一个神迹,也必定相信第二个神迹。 9如果他们两个神迹都不相信,还是不听你的话,你就从尼罗河里取些水来倒在旱地上,那水就会在旱地上变成血。”

10摩西对耶和华说:“主啊!我向来不善言辞,即使你对仆人说话以后,我还是不善言辞,因为我是个拙口笨舌的人。” 11耶和华对他说:“是谁造人的口舌?是谁使人变成哑巴或聋子?是谁使人目明或眼瞎?不都是我耶和华吗? 12去吧!我必赐给你口才,指示你说什么话。” 13但是摩西说:“主啊,请派其他人去吧。” 14耶和华向摩西发怒说:“利未亚伦不是你哥哥吗?他是个能言善辨的人,正要来迎接你。他见到你一定很欢喜。 15你要把该说的话传给他,我会赐你们口才,教你们如何行事。 16他要替你向百姓说话,做你的发言人,你对他来说就像上帝一样。 17你要把手杖带在身边,以便行神迹。”

18摩西回到家里,对他的岳父叶忒罗说:“求你让我回埃及去探望我的亲人,看看他们是否在世。”叶忒罗说:“你平安地去吧。” 19耶和华在米甸摩西说:“你只管放心回埃及去,想害你性命的人都已经死了。” 20于是,摩西拿着上帝的杖,带着妻子和儿子骑驴返回埃及21耶和华对摩西说:“你到了埃及,见到法老的时候,务要照我赐给你的能力在法老面前行神迹。但我要使他的心刚硬,他必不让百姓离开。 22那时,你就告诉法老,‘耶和华说,以色列是我的长子, 23我对你说过让我的长子出去事奉我,但你执意不肯。看啊,我要杀你的长子。’”

24摩西在途中夜宿的时候,耶和华遇见摩西,想要杀他。 25他的妻子西坡拉拿起锋利的火石,割下儿子的包皮,放在摩西脚前,说:“你真是我的血郎。” 26这样,耶和华才没杀他。当时,西坡拉说“血郎”是指割礼一事。

27耶和华对亚伦说:“你到旷野去迎接摩西。”他就在上帝的山上遇见摩西,并亲吻他。 28摩西把耶和华吩咐他的以及要他行的神迹都告诉了亚伦29摩西亚伦一起回去招聚以色列的众长老, 30亚伦把耶和华对摩西的吩咐详细地告诉他们。摩西又在百姓面前行了那些神迹, 31百姓相信了。以色列人听见耶和华眷顾他们、看到了他们的苦难,都俯伏敬拜祂。

New International Version – UK

Exodus 4:1-31

Signs for Moses

1Moses answered, ‘What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, “The Lord did not appear to you”?’

2Then the Lord said to him, ‘What is that in your hand?’

‘A staff,’ he replied.

3The Lord said, ‘Throw it on the ground.’

Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 4Then the Lord said to him, ‘Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.’ So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. 5‘This,’ said the Lord, ‘is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers – the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob – has appeared to you.’

6Then the Lord said, ‘Put your hand inside your cloak.’ So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous4:6 The Hebrew word for leprous was used for various diseases affecting the skin. – it had become as white as snow.

7‘Now put it back into your cloak,’ he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.

8Then the Lord said, ‘If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. 9But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.’

10Moses said to the Lord, ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.’

11The Lord said to him, ‘Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.’

13But Moses said, ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.’

14Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, ‘What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. 15You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. 16He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. 17But take this staff in your hand so that you can perform the signs with it.’

Moses returns to Egypt

18Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, ‘Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.’

Jethro said, ‘Go, and I wish you well.’

19Now the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, ‘Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.’ 20So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

21The Lord said to Moses, ‘When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. 22Then say to Pharaoh, “This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son, 23and I told you, ‘Let my son go, so that he may worship me.’ But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.” ’

24At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses4:24 Hebrew him and was about to kill him. 25But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it.4:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain. ‘Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,’ she said. 26So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said ‘bridegroom of blood’, referring to circumcision.)

27The Lord said to Aaron, ‘Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.’ So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28Then Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform.

29Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites, 30and Aaron told them everything the Lord had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people, 31and they believed. And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshipped.