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Exodus, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Moses 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 Moses ran away
from it.
{4:4} The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand, and take it by
the tail."
He stretched out his hand, and took 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 Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
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} Moses said to the LORD, "O [1>]Lord,[<1] 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 Moses, and he said,
"What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak
well. Also, behold, he comes out 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} 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."
{4:19} The LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for
all the men who sought your life are dead."
{4:20} 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. {4:21} The LORD 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.
{4:22} You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel 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
Moses and wanted to kill him. {4:25} 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."
{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 Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet
Moses."
He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him. {4:28} Moses
told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him, and
all the signs with which he had instructed him. {4:29} Moses and Aaron
went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
{4:30} Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses,
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 Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed
their heads and worshiped.
{5:1} Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is
what the LORD, the God of Israel, 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 Israel go? I don't know the LORD, and moreover I will not
let Israel 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, Moses and Aaron,
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 Israel, 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 Israel 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 you shall deliver the
same number of bricks!"
{5:19} The officers of the children of Israel 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 Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came
out 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} Moses 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 Moses, "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 Moses, and said to him, "I am the LORD; {6:3} and
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; 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 Canaan,
the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens. {6:5}
Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the
Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant. {6:6}
Therefore tell the children of Israel, '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 Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a
heritage: I am the LORD.'"
{6:9} Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't
listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
{6:10} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {6:11} "Go in, speak to
Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of
his land."
{6:12} Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, "Behold, the children of
Israel haven't listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me,
who am of uncircumcised lips?" {6:13} The LORD spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to
Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land
of Egypt.
{6:14} These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of
Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi;
these are the families of Reuben. {6:15} The sons of Simeon: Jemuel,
and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a
Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon. {6:16} These are
the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon,
and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one
hundred thirty-seven years. {6:17} The sons of Gershon: Libni and
Shimei, according to their families. {6:18} The sons of Kohath: Amram,
and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath
were one hundred thirty-three years. {6:19} The sons of Merari: Mahli
and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their
generations. {6:20} Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself
as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life
of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years. {6:21} The sons of
Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. {6:22} The sons of Uzziel:
Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. {6:23} Aaron took Elisheba, the
daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she
bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. {6:24} The sons of
Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the
Korahites. {6:25} Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of
Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of
the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families. {6:26}
These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, "Bring out the
children of Israel 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 Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.
{6:28} It happened on the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the
land of Egypt, {6:29} that the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "I am the
LORD. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you."
{6:30} Moses said before the LORD, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised
lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?"
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:10} The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."
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