1 Toe antwoord Moses en sê: Maar as hulle my nie glo en na my stem nie luister nie, maar sê: Die HERE het nie aan jou verskyn nie?
2 Daarop vra die HERE vir hom: Wat is daar in jou hand? En hy antwoord: 'n Staf.
3 En Hy sê: Gooi dit op die grond. Toe gooi hy dit op die grond, en dit het 'n slang geword; en Moses het daarvoor gevlug.
4 Toe sê die HERE vir Moses: Steek jou hand uit en gryp dit aan die stert. Hierop het hy sy hand uitgesteek en dit gegryp, en dit het 'n staf in sy hand geword --
5 sodat hulle kan glo dat die HERE, die God van hulle vaders, die God van Abraham, die God van Isak en die God van Jakob, aan jou verskyn het.
6 En die HERE het verder vir hom gesê: Steek tog jou hand in jou boesem. En hy het sy hand in sy boesem gesteek; en toe hy dit uittrek, was sy hand melaats, soos sneeu!
7 En Hy sê: Steek jou hand weer in jou boesem. En hy het sy hand weer in sy boesem gesteek; en toe hy dit uit sy boesem uittrek, was dit weer soos sy ander vlees!
8 En as hulle jou nie glo en aan die eerste teken geen gehoor gee nie, dan sal hulle die laaste teken glo.
9 En as hulle ook hierdie twee tekens nie glo en na jou stem nie luister nie, neem dan van die Nyl se water en giet dit op die droë grond uit; dan sal die water wat jy uit die Nyl neem, op die droë grond bloed word.
10 Toe sê Moses aan die HERE: Ag, Here, ek is nie 'n man van woorde nie -- van gister of van eergister of vandat U met u kneg gespreek het nie; want ek is swaar van mond en swaar van tong.
11 En die HERE antwoord hom: Wie het vir die mens die mond gemaak, of wie maak stom of doof, of siende of blind? Is dit nie Ek, die HERE, nie?
12 Gaan dan nou heen, en Ek sal met jou mond wees en jou leer wat jy moet sê.
13 Maar hy sê: Ag, Here, stuur tog deur wie U wil stuur.
14 Toe ontvlam die toorn van die HERE teen Moses, en Hy sê: Is jou broer A„ron, die Leviet, nie daar nie? Ek weet dat hy goed kan praat. En hy gaan ook al uit om jou te ontmoet, en as hy jou sien, sal hy bly wees in sy hart.
15 Jy moet dan met hom spreek en die woorde in sy mond lê. En Âk sal met jou mond en sy mond wees en julle leer wat julle moet doen.
16 En hy moet vir jou met die volk spreek, en dan sal hy vir jou 'n mond wees en jy vir hom 'n god wees.
17 Neem dan hierdie staf in jou hand waarmee jy die tekens moet doen.
18 Toe gaan Moses weg en kom by sy skoonvader Jetro terug, en hy sê vir hom: Laat my tog trek en na my broers teruggaan wat in Egipte is, om te sien of hulle nog lewe. En Jetro sê vir Moses: Gaan in vrede.
19 Ook het die HERE vir Moses in M¡dian gesê: Gaan heen, keer terug na Egipte; want al die manne wat jou lewe gesoek het, is dood.
20 Moses neem toe sy vrou en sy seuns en laat hulle op 'n esel ry, terug na Egipteland. Moses het ook die staf van God in sy hand geneem.
21 En die HERE sê vir Moses: Nou dat jy wegtrek om na Egipte terug te gaan, kyk dat jy al die wonders voor Farao doen wat Ek in jou mag gestel het. Maar Âk sal sy hart verhard, sodat hy die volk nie sal laat trek nie.
22 Dan moet jy vir Farao sê: So spreek die HERE: My eersgebore seun is Israel.
23 Daarom beveel Ek jou: Laat my seun trek, dat hy My kan dien. Maar jy het geweier om hom te laat trek. Kyk, Ek sal jou eersgebore seun laat sterwe.
24 En op die pad in die herberg het die HERE hom teëgekom en wou hom doodmaak.
25 Toe neem Sippora 'n skerp klip en sny die voorhuid van haar seun af en gooi dit voor sy voete en sê: Waarlik, jy is vir my 'n bloedbruidegom!
26 En Hy het hom laat staan. Toe het sy gesê: Bloedbruidegom! -- met die oog op die besnydenis.
27 Die HERE het ook aan A„ron gesê: Loop Moses tegemoet in die woestyn. En hy het geloop en hom by die berg van God aangetref en hom gesoen.
28 Daarop vertel Moses aan A„ron al die woorde van die HERE waarmee Hy hom gestuur het, en al die tekens wat Hy hom beveel het.
29 En Moses en A„ron het vertrek en al die oudstes van die kinders van Israel bymekaar laat kom;
30 en A„ron het al die woorde gespreek wat die HERE aan Moses gesê het, en die tekens gedoen voor die oë van die volk.
31 En die volk het geglo. En toe hulle hoor dat die HERE op die kinders van Israel ag gegee en hulle ellende aangesien het, het hulle in aanbidding neergebuig.
1 And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord.
2 And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.
3 And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it.
4 And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by the tail: (and he put out his hand and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his hand:)
5 So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by you.
6 Then the Lord said to him again, Put your hand inside your clothing. And he put his hand inside his robe: and when he took it out it was like the hand of a leper, as white as snow.
7 And he said, Put your hand inside your robe again. (And he put his hand into his robe again, and when he took it out he saw that it had become like his other flesh.)
8 And if they do not have faith in you or give ear to the voice of the first sign, they will have faith in the second sign.
9 And if they have no faith even in these two signs and will not give ear to your voice, then you are to take the water of the Nile and put it on the dry land: and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.
10 And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.
11 And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who takes away a man's voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
12 So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.
13 And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send.
14 And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.
15 Let him give ear to your voice, and you will put my words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his, teaching you what you have to do.
16 And he will do the talking for you to the people: he will be to you as a mouth and you will be to him as God.
17 And take in your hand this rod with which you will do the signs.
18 And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.
20 And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand.
21 And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go.
22 And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:
23 And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.
24 Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.
26 So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.
27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and you will see Moses. So he went and came across Moses at the mountain of God, and gave him a kiss.
28 And Moses gave Aaron an account of all the words of the Lord which he had sent him to say, and of all the signs which he had given him orders to do.
29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:
30 And Aaron said to them all the words the Lord had said to Moses, and did the signs before all the people.
31 And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.