Shemot, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Moshe answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor
listen to my voice; for they will say, 'The LORD has not appeared to
you.'"
{4:2} The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?"
He said, "A rod."
{4:3} He said, "Throw it on the ground."
He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moshe ran away
from it.
{4:4} The LORD said to Moshe, "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.
{4:5} "That they may believe that the LORD, the God of their
fathers, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitzchak, and the God of
Ya`akov, has appeared to you." {4:6} The LORD 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.
{4:7} 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.
{4:8} "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. {4:9} 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."
{4:10} Moshe said to the LORD, "Oh, 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."
{4:11} The LORD said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one
mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, the LORD? {4:12} Now
therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you
shall speak."
{4:13} He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."
{4:14} The anger of the LORD was kindled against Moshe, and he said,
"What about Aharon, 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. {4:15} 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. {4:16} 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. {4:17} You shall take this rod in your
hand, with which you shall do the signs."
{4:18} Moshe went and returned to Yitro 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."
Yitro said to Moshe, "Go in peace."
{4:19} The LORD said to Moshe in Midyan, "Go, return into Egypt; for
all the men who sought your life are dead."
{4:20} Moshe took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey,
and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moshe took God's rod in his
hand. {4:21} The LORD said to Moshe, "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.
{4:22} You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Yisra'el is my
son, my firstborn, {4:23} 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.'"
{4:24} It happened on the way at a lodging place, that the LORD met
him and wanted to kill him. {4:25} Then Tzipporah 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."
{4:26} So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of
blood," because of the circumcision.
{4:27} The LORD said to Aharon, "Go into the wilderness to meet
Moshe."
He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him. {4:28} Moshe
told Aharon all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him, and
all the signs with which he had charged him. {4:29} Moshe and Aharon
went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Yisra'el.
{4:30} Aharon spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moshe,
and did the signs in the sight of the people. {4:31} The people
believed, and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children
of Yisra'el, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed
their heads and worshiped.
{5:1} Afterward Moshe and Aharon came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is
what the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, says, 'Let my people go, that they
may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"
{5:2} Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his
voice to let Yisra'el go? I don't know the LORD, and moreover I will
not let Yisra'el go."
{5:3} They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let
us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the
LORD, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
{5:4} The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moshe and Aharon,
take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!" {5:5}
Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you
make them rest from their burdens." {5:6} The same day Pharaoh
commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
{5:7} "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as
before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. {5:8} The number
of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You
shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they
cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.' {5:9} Let heavier
work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let
them pay any attention to lying words."
{5:10} The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers,
and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says: "I
will not give you straw. {5:11} Go yourselves, get straw where you can
find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished." {5:12} So the
people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to
gather stubble for straw. {5:13} The taskmasters were urgent saying,
"Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!" {5:14} The
officers of the children of Yisra'el, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had
set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled
your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"
{5:15} Then the officers of the children of Yisra'el came and cried
to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?
{5:16} No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make
brick!' and, behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in
your own people."
{5:17} But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say,
'Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.' {5:18} Go therefore now, and
work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet shall you deliver the
same number of bricks!"
{5:19} The officers of the children of Yisra'el saw that they were
in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from
your daily quota of bricks!"
{5:20} They met Moshe and Aharon, who stood in the way, as they came
forth from Pharaoh: {5:21} and they said to them, "May the LORD look
at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in
the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword
in their hand to kill us."
{5:22} Moshe returned to the LORD, and said, "Lord, why have you
brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
{5:23} For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has
brought trouble on this people; neither have you delivered your people
at all."
{6:1} The LORD said to Moshe, "Now you shall see what I will do to
Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong
hand he shall drive them out of his land."
{6:2} God spoke to Moshe, and said to him, "I am the LORD; {6:3} and
I appeared to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov, as El Shaddai; but
by my name the LORD I was not known to them. {6:4} I have also
established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Kana`an,
the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens. {6:5}
Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Yisra'el, whom
the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
{6:6} Therefore tell the children of Yisra'el, 'I am the LORD, and I
will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will
rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an
outstretched arm, and with great judgments: {6:7} and I will take you
to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know
that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens
of the Egyptians. {6:8} I will bring you into the land which I swore
to give to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov; and I will give it to
you for a heritage: I am the LORD.'"
{6:9} Moshe spoke so to the children of Yisra'el, but they didn't
listen to Moshe for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
{6:10} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {6:11} "Go in, speak to
Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Yisra'el go out of
his land."
{6:12} Moshe spoke before the LORD, saying, "Behold, the children of
Yisra'el haven't listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me,
who am of uncircumcised lips?" {6:13} The LORD spoke to Moshe and to
Aharon, and gave them a charge to the children of Yisra'el, and to
Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Yisra'el out of the
land of Egypt.
{6:14} These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of
Re'uven the firstborn of Yisra'el: Chanokh, and Pallu, Chetzron, and
Karmi; these are the families of Re'uven. {6:15} The sons of Shim`on:
Yemu'el, and Yamin, and Ohad, and Yakhin, and Tzochar, and Sha'ul the
son of a Kana`ani woman; these are the families of Shim`on. {6:16}
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their
generations: Gershon, and Kehat, and Merari; and the years of the life
of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years. {6:17} The sons of
Gershon: Livni and Shim`i, according to their families. {6:18} The
sons of Kehat: `Amram, and Yitzhar, and Chevron, and `Uzzi'el; and the
years of the life of Kehat were one hundred thirty-three years. {6:19}
The sons of Merari: Machli and Mushi. These are the families of the
Levi'im according to their generations. {6:20} `Amram took Yokheved
his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aharon and
Moshe: and the years of the life of `Amram were a hundred and
thirty-seven years. {6:21} The sons of Yitzhar: Korach, and Nefeg, and
Zikhri. {6:22} The sons of `Uzzi'el: Misha'el, and Eltzafan, and
Sitri. {6:23} Aharon took Elisheva, the daughter of `Amminadav, the
sister of Nachshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadav and Avihu,
El`azar and Itamar. {6:24} The sons of Korach: Assir, and Elkana, and
Avi'asaf; these are the families of the Korchi. {6:25} El`azar
Aharon's son took one of the daughters of Puti'el as his wife; and she
bore him Pinechas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the
Levi'im according to their families. {6:26} These are that Aharon and
Moshe, to whom the LORD said, "Bring out the children of Yisra'el from
the land of Egypt according to their armies." {6:27} These are those
who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of
Yisra'el from Egypt. These are that Moshe and Aharon.
{6:28} It happened on the day when the LORD spoke to Moshe in the
land of Egypt, {6:29} that the LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, "I am the
LORD. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you."
{6:30} Moshe said before the LORD, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised
lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?"
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