| Exodus 4 - Versions
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| Exodus 4 Text (WEB)
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- Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"
- Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."
- He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
- Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.
- "That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."
- Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
- He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
- "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
- It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."
- Moses said to Yahweh, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."
- Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?
- Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
- He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."
- The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
- You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
- He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
- You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."
- Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
- Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."
- Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.
- Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
- You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
- and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"
- It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.
- Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."
- So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.
- Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.
- Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.
- Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
- Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
- The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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| Exodus 4 Text (Hebrew)
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- ויען משה ויאמר והן לא־יאמינו לי ולא ישמעו בקלי כי יאמרו לא־נראה אליך יהוה׃
- ויאמר אליו יהוה בידך ויאמר מטה׃
- ויאמר השליכהו ארצה וישליכהו ארצה ויהי לנחש וינס משה מפניו׃
- ויאמר יהוה אל־משה שלח ידך ואחז בזנבו וישלח ידו ויחזק בו ויהי למטה בכפו׃
- למען יאמינו כי־נראה אליך יהוה אלהי אבתם אלהי אברהם אלהי יצחק ואלהי יעקב׃
- ויאמר יהוה לו עוד הבא־נא ידך בחיקך ויבא ידו בחיקו ויוצאה והנה ידו מצרעת כשלג׃
- ויאמר השב ידך אל־חיקך וישב ידו אל־חיקו ויוצאה מחיקו והנה־שבה כבשרו׃
- והיה אם־לא יאמינו לך ולא ישמעו לקל האת הראשון והאמינו לקל האת האחרון׃
- והיה אם־לא יאמינו גם לשני האתות האלה ולא ישמעון לקלך ולקחת ממימי היאר ושפכת היבשה והיו המים אשר תקח מן־היאר והיו לדם ביבשת׃
- ויאמר משה אל־יהוה בי אדני לא איש דברים אנכי גם מתמול גם משלשם גם מאז דברך אל־עבדך כי כבד־פה וכבד לשון אנכי׃
- ויאמר יהוה אליו מי שם פה לאדם או מי־ישום אלם או חרש או פקח או עור הלא אנכי יהוה׃
- ועתה לך ואנכי אהיה עם־פיך והוריתיך אשר תדבר׃
- ויאמר בי אדני שלח־נא ביד־תשלח׃
- ויחר־אף יהוה במשה ויאמר הלא אהרן אחיך הלוי ידעתי כי־דבר ידבר הוא וגם הנה־הוא יצא לקראתך וראך ושמח בלבו׃
- ודברת אליו ושמת את־הדברים בפיו ואנכי אהיה עם־פיך ועם־פיהו והוריתי אתכם את אשר תעשון׃
- ודבר־הוא לך אל־העם והיה הוא יהיה־לך לפה ואתה תהיה־לו לאלהים׃
- ואת־המטה הזה תקח בידך אשר תעשה־בו את־האתת׃ ף
- וילך משה וישב אל־יתר חתנו ויאמר לו אלכה נא ואשובה אל־אחי אשר־במצרים ואראה העודם חיים ויאמר יתרו למשה לך לשלום׃
- ויאמר יהוה אל־משה במדין לך שב מצרים כי־מתו כל־האנשים המבקשים את־נפשך׃
- ויקח משה את־אשתו ואת־בניו וירכבם על־החמר וישב ארצה מצרים ויקח משה את־מטה האלהים בידו׃
- ויאמר יהוה אל־משה בלכתך לשוב מצרימה ראה כל־המפתים אשר־שמתי בידך ועשיתם לפני פרעה ואני אחזק את־לבו ולא ישלח את־העם׃
- ואמרת אל־פרעה כה אמר יהוה בני בכרי ישראל׃
- ואמר אליך שלח את־בני ויעבדני ותמאן לשלחו הנה אנכי הרג את־בנך בכרך׃
- ויהי בדרך במלון ויפגשהו יהוה ויבקש המיתו׃
- ותקח צפרה צר ותכרת את־ערלת בנה ותגע לרגליו ותאמר כי חתן־דמים אתה לי׃
- וירף ממנו אז אמרה חתן דמים למולת׃ ף
- ויאמר יהוה אל־אהרן לך לקראת משה המדברה וילך ויפגשהו בהר האלהים וישק־לו׃
- ויגד משה לאהרן את כל־דברי יהוה אשר שלחו ואת כל־האתת אשר צוהו׃
- וילך משה ואהרן ויאספו את־כל־זקני בני ישראל׃
- וידבר אהרן את כל־הדברים אשר־דבר יהוה אל־משה ויעש האתת לעיני העם׃
- ויאמן העם וישמעו כי־פקד יהוה את־בני ישראל וכי ראה את־ענים ויקדו וישתחוו׃
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| Exodus 4 Text (Latin)
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- Respondens Moyses ait : Non credent mihi, neque audient vocem meam, sed dicent : Non apparuit tibi Dominus.
- Dixit ergo ad eum : Quid est quod tenes in manu tua ? Respondit : Virga.
- Dixitque Dominus : Projice eam in terram. Projecit, et versa est in colubrum, ita ut fugeret Moyses.
- Dixitque Dominus : Extende manum tuam, et apprehende caudam ejus. Extendit, et tenuit, versaque est in virgam.
- Ut credant, inquit, quod apparuerit tibi Dominus Deus patrum suorum, Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac et Deus Jacob.
- Dixitque Dominus rursum : Mitte manum tuam in sinum tuum. Quam cum misisset in sinum, protulit leprosam instar nivis.
- Retrahe, ait, manum tuam in sinum tuum. Retraxit, et protulit iterum, et erat similis carni reliquæ.
- Si non crediderint, inquit, tibi, neque audierint sermonem signi prioris, credent verbo signi sequentis.
- Quod si nec duobus quidem his signis crediderint, neque audierint vocem tuam : sume aquam fluminis, et effunde eam super aridam, et quidquid hauseris de fluvio, vertetur in sanguinem.
- Ait Moyses : Obsecro, Domine, non sum eloquens ab heri et nudiustertius : et ex quo locutus es ad servum tuum, impeditioris et tardioris linguæ sum.
- Dixit Dominus ad eum : Quis fecit os hominis ? aut quis fabricatus est mutum et surdum, videntem et cæcum ? nonne ego ?
- Perge, igitur, et ego ero in ore tuo : doceboque te quid loquaris.
- At ille : Obsecro, inquit, Domine, mitte quem missurus es.
- Iratus Dominus in Moysen, ait : Aaron frater tuus Levites, scio quod eloquens sit : ecce ipse egreditur in occursum tuum, vidensque te lætabitur corde.
- Loquere ad eum, et pone verba mea in ore ejus : et ego ero in ore tuo, et in ore illius, et ostendam vobis quid agere debeatis.
- Ipse loquetur pro te ad populum, et erit os tuum : tu autem eris ei in his quæ ad Deum pertinent.
- Virgam quoque hanc sume in manu tua, in qua facturus es signa.
- Abiit Moyses, et reversus est ad Jethro socerum suum, dixitque ei : Vadam et revertar ad fratres meos in Ægyptum, ut videam si adhuc vivant. Cui ait Jethro : Vade in pace.
- Dixit ergo Dominus ad Moysen in Madian : Vade, et revertere in Ægyptum, mortui sunt enim omnes qui quærebant animam tuam.
- Tulit ergo Moyses uxorem suam, et filios suos, et imposuit eos super asinum : reversusque est in Ægyptum, portans virgam Dei in manu sua.
- Dixitque ei Dominus revertenti in Ægyptum : Vide ut omnia ostenta quæ posui in manu tua, facias coram Pharaone : ego indurabo cor ejus, et non dimittet populum.
- Dicesque ad eum : Hæc dicit Dominus : Filius meus primogenitus Israël.
- Dixi tibi : Dimitte filium meum ut serviat mihi ; et noluisti dimittere eum : ecce ego interficiam filium tuum primogenitum.
- Cumque esset in itinere, in diversorio occurrit ei Dominus, et volebat occidere eum.
- Tulit idcirco Sephora acutissimam petram, et circumcidit præputium filii sui, tetigitque pedes ejus, et ait : Sponsus sanguinum tu mihi es.
- Et dimisit eum postquam dixerat : Sponsus sanguinum ob circumcisionem.
- Dixit autem Dominus ad Aaron : Vade in occursum Moysi in desertum. Qui perrexit obviam ei in montem Dei, et osculatus est eum.
- Narravitque Moyses Aaron omnia verba Domini quibus miserat eum, et signa quæ mandaverat.
- Veneruntque simul, et congregaverunt cunctos seniores filiorum Israël.
- Locutusque est Aaron omnia verba quæ dixerat Dominus ad Moysen : et fecit signa coram populo,
- et credidit populus. Audieruntque quod visitasset Dominus filios Israël, et respexisset afflictionem illorum : et proni adoraverunt.
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| Exodus 4 Text (KJV)
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- 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.
- And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
- And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
- 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.
- And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
- 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.
- 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.
- And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
- 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.
- And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
- 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.
- So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
- 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.
- And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
- And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
- And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
- 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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