EXODUS. 4 CHAPTER I.-II. VERSES 1-3. 1. THESE are the names of the sons of Israel that came into Egypt together with Jacob their father; they came in each with their whole family. 2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Zabulon, Benjamin, Dan and Nepthalim, Gad and Åser. But Joseph was in 5 But Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls born of Jacob were seventy-five. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. And the children of Israel increased and multiplied, and became numerous and grew exceedingly strong, and the land multiplied them. And there arose up another king another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9 And he said to his nation, Behold the race of the children of Israel is a great multitude, and is stronger than we: 10 Come then, let us deal craftily with them, lest at any time they be increased, and whensoever war shall happen to us, these also shall be added to our enemies, and having prevailed against us in war, they will depart out of the land. "And he set over them task-masters, who should afflict them in their works, and they built strong cities for Pharao, both Pitho, and Ramesses, and On, which is Heliopolis. 12 But as they humbled them, by so much they multiplied, and grew exceedingly strong, and the Egyptians greatly abhorred the children of Israel. And the Egyptians tyrannised over the children of Israel by force. 14 And they embittered their life by hard labours, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence. 15 And the king of the Egyptians spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews, the name of the one was Sepphora, and the name of the second Phua. 16 And he said, when ye do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it, but if a female, save it. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt appointed them, and they saved the male children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, Why is it that ye have done this thing, and saved the male children alive? 19 And the midwives said to Pharao, the Hebrew women are not as the women of Egypt, for they are delivered before the midwives go in to them. So they bore children. 20 And God did well to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very strong. 21 And as the midwives feared God, they established for themselves families. 22 And Pharao charged all his people, saying, Whatever male shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river, and every female, save it alive. 2. And there was a certain man of the tribe of Levi, who took to wife one of the daughters of Levi. 2And she conceived and bore a male child, and having seen that he was fair, they hid him three months. And when they could no longer hide him, his 3 resembling ve mother took for him an ark, and be- | Moses departed from the presence of i. e. a pecu- smeared it with 'bitumen, Pharao, and dwelt in the land of liar kind, more and cast the child into it, Madiam, and having come into the getable pitch. and put it in the ooze by land of Madiam, he sat on the well. the river. And his sister was watch-16 And the priest of Madiam had seven ing from a distance, to learn what daughters, feeding the flock of their would happen to him. 5 And the father Jothor, and they came and drew daughter of Pharao came down to the water until they filled their pitchers, river to bathe, and her maids walked to water the flock of their father Jothor. by the river's side, and having seen the "And the shepherds came and were ark in the ooze, she sent her maid, and driving them away, and Moses rose up took it up. And having opened it and rescued them, and drew water for she sees the babe weeping in the ark, them, and watered their sheep. 18 And and the daughter of Pharao had com- they came to Raguel their father, and passion on it, and said, This is one of he said to them, Why have ye come the Hebrews' children. And his so quickly to-day? 15 And they said, sister said to the daughter of Pharao, an Egyptian delivered us from the Wilt thou that I call to thee a nurse of shepherds, and drew water for us and the Hebrews, and shall she suckle the watered our sheep. 20 And he said to child for thee? And the daughter of his daughters, and where is he? and Pharao said, Go: and the young woman why have ye left the man? call him went and called the mother of the therefore, that he may eat bread. 21 And child. And the daughter of Pharao Moses was established with the man, said to her, Take care of this child, and and he gave Sepphora his daughter to suckle it for me, and I will give thee Moses to wife. 22 And the woman conthe wages, and the woman took the ceived and bore a son, and Moses called child, and suckled it. 10 And when the his name Gersam, saying, I am a soboy was grown, she brought him to the journer in a strange land. 23 And in daughter of Pharao, and he became those days after a length of time, the her son, and she called his name Moses, king of Egypt died, and the children saying, I took him out of the water. of Israel groaned because of their tasks, and cried, and their cry because of their tasks went up to God. 24 And God heard their groanings, and God remembered his covenant made with Abraam and Isaac and Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel and was made known to them. And it came to pass in that length of time, that Moses having grown, went out to his brethren the sons of Israel, and having noticed their distress, he sees an Egyptian smiting a certain Hebrew of his brethren the children of Israel. 12 And having looked round this way and that way, he sees no one, and he smote the Egyptian and hid him in 3. And Moses was feeding the flock the sand. 13 And having gone out the of Jothor his father-in-law, the priest second day he sees two Hebrew men of Madiam, and he brought the sheep fighting, and he says to the injurer, nigh to the wilderness, and came to Wherefore smitest thou thy neighbour? the mount of Choreb. And an angel 14 And he said, Who made thee a ruler of the Lord appeared to him in and a judge over us? wilt thou slay me flaming fire out of the Gr. fire of as thou yesterday slewest the Egyptian? bush, and he sees that the flame. Then Moses was alarmed and said, If bush burns with fire,--but the bush it be thus, this matter has become was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, known. 15 And Pharao heard this I will go near and see this great matter and sought to slay Moses, and sight, why the bush is not consumed. 2 And when the Lord saw that he drew nigh to see, the Lord called him out of the bush, saying, Moses, Moses, and he said, What is it? 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither, loose thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. + Mat. 22. 32. 6 And he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraam, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and Moses turned away his face, for he was afraid to gaze at God. And the Lord said to Moses, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and I have heard their cry caused by their task-masters, for I know their affliction. 8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Chananites, and the Chettites, and Amorites, and Pherezites, and Gergesites, and Evites, and Jebusites. And now behold the cry of the children of Israel is come to me, and I have seen the affliction with which the Egyptians afflict them. 10 And now come, I will send thee to Pharao king of Egypt, and thou shalt bring out my people the children of Israel from the land of Egypt. shall ye say to the children of Israel, THE BEING has sent me to you. 15 And God said again to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the sons of Israel, the Lord God of our fathers, the God of Abraam, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob has sent me to you, this is my name for ever, and my memorial to generations of generations. 16 Go then and gather the elders of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, the Lord God of our fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraam, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, saying, I have surely looked upon you, and upon all the things which have happened to you in Egypt. 17 And he said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of the Egyptians to the land of the Chananites and the Chettites, and Amorites and Pherezites, and Gergesites, and Evites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey. 18 And they shall hearken to thy voice, and thou and the elders of Israel shall go in to Pharao king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him, the God of the Hebrews has called us, we will go then a journey of three days into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to our God. 19 But I know that Pharao king of Egypt will not let you go, save with a mighty hand, 20 and I will stretch out my hand, and smite the Egyptians with all my wonders, which I shall work among them, and after that he will send you forth. 21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, and whenever ye shall escape, ye shall not depart empty. 22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbour and fellowlodger, articles of gold and silver, and apparel; and ye shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters,and spoil ye the Egyptians. "And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharao king of Egypt, and that I should bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt? 12 And God spoke to Moses, saying, I will be with thee, and this shall be the sign to thee that I shall send thee forth,-when thou bringest out my people out of Egypt, then ye shall serve God in this mountain. 13 And Moses said to God, Behold I shall go forth to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, the God of our fathers has sent me to you; and they will ask me, What is his name? If they believe me not, and do not What shall I say to them? 14 And God spoke to Moses, saying, I am THE BEING, and he said, Thus 4. And Moses answered and said, hearken to my voice, (for they will say, God has not appeared to thee), what shall I say to them? And the 2 6 8 18 And Moses went and returned to Lord said to him, What is this thing the Lord was greatly angered against that is in thine hand? and he said, Moses, and said, lo! Is not Aaron the a rod. And he said, Cast it on the Levite thy brother? I know that he ground, and he cast it on the ground, will surely speak to thee, and behold, and it became a serpent, and Moses he will come forth to meet thee, and fled from it. And the Lord said to beholding thee he will rejoice within Moses, stretch forth thine hand, and himself. 15 And thou shalt speak to take hold of its tail, so he stretched him, and thou shalt put my words forth his hand and took hold of the into his mouth, and I will open thy tail, and it became a rod in his hand, mouth and his mouth, and I will in-that they may believe thee, that the struct you in what ye shall do. 16 And God of thy fathers has appeared to he shall speak for thee to the people, thee, the God of Abraam, and God of and he shall be thy mouth, and thou Isaac, and God of Jacob. And the shalt be for him in things pertaining Lord said again to him, Put thine to God. 17 And this rod that was hand into thy bosom, and he put his turned into a serpent thou shalt take hand into his bosom, and brought his in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt hand out of his bosom, and his hand work miracles. became as snow, and he said again, Put thy hand into thy bosom, and he put his hand into his bosom, and brought his hand out of his bosom, and it was again restored to the complexion of his other flesh. And if they will not believe thee, nor hearken to the voice of the first sign, they will believe thee because of the voice of the second sign. And it shall come to pass if they will not believe thee for these two signs, and will not hearken to thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land, and the water which thou shalt take from the river shall be blood upon the dry land. 10 And Moses said to the Lord, I pray, Lord, + Gr. before I have not been sufficient in former times neither the third day. from the time that thou hast begun to speak to thy servant. I am weak in speech and slow-tongued. "And the Lord said to Moses, Who has given a mouth to man, and who has made the very hard of hearing, and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? have not I, God? 12 And now go and I will open thy mouth, and 2. 16. Gr. will 'instruct thee in what thou shalt say. 13 And Moses said, I pray thee, Lord, appoint another able person whom thou shalt send. 14 And yesterday, neither before * See 1 Cor. Jothor his father-in-law, and says, will go and return to my brethren in Egypt, and will see if they are yet living. And Jothor said to Moses, Go in health; and in those days after some time, the king of Egypt died. 19 And the Lord said to Moses in Madiam, Go, depart into Egypt, for all that sought thy life are dead. 20 And Moses took his wife and his children and mounted them on the beasts and returned to Egypt, and Moses took the rod which he had from God in his hand. 21 And the Lord said to Moses, When thou goest and returnest to Egypt, see all the miracles I have charged thee with, thou ↑ Lit. put into shalt work before Pharao, thine hands. and I will harden his heart, and he shall certainly not send away the people.. 22 And thou shalt say to Pharao, These things saith the Lord, Israel is my first-born. 23 And I said to thee, Send away my people, that they may serve me, now if thou wilt not send them away, see I will slay thy firstborn son. 24 And it came to pass that the angel of the Lord met him by the way in the inn, and sought to slay him. 25 And Sepphora having taken a stone cut off the foreskin of her son, and fell at his feet and said, The blood of the fore have they cried, saying, Let us arise and do sacrifice to our God, Let the works of these men be made grievous, and let them care for these things, and not care for vain words. circumcision of my son is staunched, ( on them daily the rate of brick-making 26 and he departed from him, because which they perform, thou shalt not she said, the blood of the circumcision abate anything, for they are idle, thereof my son is staunched. 27 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 they kissed each other. 28 And Moses reported to Aaron all the words of the Lord, which he sent, and all the things which he charged him. 29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered the elders of the children of Israel. 30 And Aaron spoke all these words, which God spoke yourselves straw whencesoever ye can to Moses, and wrought the miracles before the people. 31 And the people believed and rejoiced, because God visited the children of Israel, and because he saw their affliction, and the people bowed and worshipped. ness. let, &c. 10 And the taskmasters and the accomptants hastened them, and they spoke to the people, saying, thus says Pharao, I will give you straw no longer. "Go ye, yourselves, get for find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate. 12 So the people were dispersed in all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw. 13 And the taskmasters hastened them saying, Fulfil your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given you. 14 And 5. And after this went in Moses and the accomptants of the race of the Aaron to Pharao, and they said to him, children of Israel who were set over These things says the Lord God of them by the masters of Pharao were Israel, Send my people away, that they scourged [and questioned,] +Supplied from may keep a feast to me in the wilder- men saying, Why have ye the Hebrew. 2 And Pharao said, Who is he not fulfilled your rates of brick-work that I should hearken to his voice, so as yesterday and the third day, to-day that I should send away the children also? 15 And the accomptants of the of Israel, I do not know the Lord, and children of Israel went in and cried + Gr. do not I will not let Israel go. to Pharao, saying, Why dost thou act And they say to him, the thus to thy servants? 16 Straw is not God of the Hebrews has called us to given to thy servants, and they tell us him, we will go therefore a three days to make brick, and behold thy serjourney into the wilderness, that we vants have been scourged, thou wilt may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest therefore injure thy people. 17 And he at any time death or slaughter happen said to them, Ye are idle, ye are idlers, And the king of Egypt said therefore ye say, Let us go and do to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, sacrifice to our God. 18 Now then go turn the people from their works? de- and work, for straw shall not be given part each of you to your works. And to you, yet ye shall return the rate of Pharao said, Behold now the people is bricks. 19 And the accomptants of the very numerous, let us not then give children of Israel saw themselves in them rest from their work. 6And an evil plight, men saying, Ye shall Pharao gave orders to the task-masters not fail to deliver the daily + Gr.from the of the people and the accomptants, rate of the brick-making, brick-making saying, Ye shall no longer give straw 20 And they met Moses and which belongs to the people for brick-making as yes- Aaron coming forth to meet to each day. terday and the third day, but let them them, as they came forth from Pharao. go themselves, and collect straw for 21 And they said to them, The Lord themselves. And thou shalt impose look upon you and judge you, for ye to us. 8 to deliver that |