출애굽기(Exodus) 4장

 

 

출애굽기(Exodus) 4장

 

1. Moses answered, "What if they do not

believe me or listen to me and say, 'The

LORD did not appear to you'?"

 

2. Then the LORD said to him, "What is

that in your hand?" "A staff," he replied.

 

3. The LORD said, "Throw it on the

ground." Moses threw it on the

ground and it became a snake, and

he ran from it.

 

4. Then 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."

 

6. Then the LORD said, "Put your hand

inside your cloak." So Moses put his

hand into his cloak, and when he took

it out, it was leprous, like 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.

 

8. Then the LORD said, "if they do not

believe you or pay attention to the first

miraculous sign, they may believe the

second.

 

9. But 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."

 

10. Moses said to the LORD, "O 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."

 

11. The LORD said to him, "Who gave man

his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute?

Who gives him sight or makes him blind?

Is it not I, the LORD?

 

12. Now go; I will help you speak and will

teach you what to say."

 

13. But Moses said, "O Lord, please send

someone else to do it."

 

14. Then 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 his heart will be glad

when he sees you.

 

15. You shall speak to him and put words

in his mouth; I will help both of you

speak and will teach you what to do.

 

16. He 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.

 

17. But take this staff in your hand so you

can perform miraculous signs with it."

 

18. Then Moses went back to Jethro his

father-in-law and said to him, "Let me

go back to my own people in Egypt to

see if any of them are still alive." Jethro

said, "Go, and I wish you well."

 

19. Now the LORD had said to Moses in

Midian, "Go back to Egypt, for all the

men who wanted to kill you are dead."

 

20. So 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.

 

21. The 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.

 

22. Then say to Pharaoh, 'This is what the

LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son,

 

23. and I told you, "Let my son go, so he

may worship me." But you refused to let

him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.'"

 

24. At a lodging place on the way, the

LORD met {Moses} and was about to

kill him.

 

25. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut

off her son's foreskin and touched

{Moses'} feet with it. "Surely you are

a bridegroom of blood to me," she

said.

 

26. So the LORD let him alone. (At that

time she said "bridegroom of blood,"

referring to circumcision.)

 

27. The LORD said to Aaron, "GO into the

desert to meet Moses." So he met Moses

at the mountain of God and kissed him.

 

28. Then Moses told Aaron everything

the LORD had sent him to say, and

also about all the miraculous signs he

had commanded him to perform.

 

29. Moses and Aaron brought together

all the elders of the Israelites,

 

30. and Aaron told them everything the

LORD had said to Moses. He also

performed the signs before the

people,

 

31. and they believed. And when they

heard that the LORD was concerned

about them and had seen their

misery, they bowed down and

worshiped.