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Exodus 4 📜 📕 ↷
Moses' Staff
1 MOYSES answering said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: Our Lord hath not appeared to thee.📜💬📚
2 Therefore he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.📜💬📚
3 And our Lord said: Cast it upon the ground. He did cast it, and it was turned into a serpent, so that Moyses fled.📜💬📚
4 And our Lord said: Stretch thy hand, & catch the tail thereof. He stretched it forth, & took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod.📜💬📚
5 That they may believe, quoth he, that the Lord God of their fathers hath appeared to thee, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, & the God of Jacob.📜💬📚
Moses' Hand
6 And our Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. Which when he had put into his bosom, he brought it forth full of leprosy like snow.📜💬📚
7 Draw back, quoth he, thy hand into thy bosom. He drew it back, and brought it forth again, & it was like the other flesh.📜💬📚
8 If they will not believe thee, quoth he, nor hear the word of the former sign, they will believe the word of the sign following.📜💬📚
9 And if so be they will believe neither of these two signs, nor hear thy voice, take water of the river, & pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest of the river shall be turned into blood.📜💬📚
Appointment of Aaron
10 Moyses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before: and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment & slowness of tongue.📜💬📚
11 Our Lord said to him: Who made the mouth of man; or who framed the dumb and deaf, the seeing and the blind? Did not I?📜💬📚
12 Go on therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; & will teach thee what thou shalt speak.📜💬📚
13 But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send whom thou wilt send.📜💬📚
14 Our Lord being angry at Moyses, said: Aaron thy brother the Levite, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet thee, & seeing thee shall be glad at the heart.📜💬📚
15 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth; & I will be in thy mouth, and in his mouth, and will shew you what ye must do.📜💬📚
16 He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.📜💬📚
17 This rod also take in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.📜💬📚
Moses Leaves for Egypt
18 Moyses went his way, & returned to Jethro his father in law, and said to him: I will go and return to my brethren in AEgypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. To whom Jethro said: Go in peace:📜💬📚
19 Therefore our Lord said to Moyses in Madian: Go, and return into AEgypt: for they are all dead that sought thy life.📜💬📚
20 Moyses therefore took his wife, and his children, and set them upon an ass: and returned into AEgypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.📜💬📚
21 And our Lord said to him returning into AEgypt: See that thou do all the wonders which I have put in thy hand, before Pharao: I will indurate his heart, and he will not dismiss the people.📜💬📚
22 And thou shalt say to him: This saith the Lord: My first-begotten son is Israel.📜💬📚
23 I said to thee: dismiss my son that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not dismiss him: behold I will kill thy first-begotten son.📜💬📚
24 And when he was in his journey, in the Inn, our Lord met him, and would have killed him.📜💬📚
25 Sephora by and by took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the prepuce of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse thou art to me.📜💬📚
26 And he let him go after she had said, A bloody spouse thou art to me, because of the circumcision.📜💬📚
People Believe Moses and Aaron
27 And our Lord said to Aaron: Go to Moyses into the desert. Who went forth to meet him unto the Mountain of God, and kissed him.📜💬📚
28 And Moyses told Aaron all the words of our Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded.📜💬📚
29 And they came together, and gathered together all the ancients of the children of Israel.📜💬📚
30 And Aaron spake all the words which our Lord had said to Moyses: and he wrought the signs before the people,📜💬📚
31 and the people believed. And they heard that our Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction; and they adored prostrate.📜💬📚
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