von Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft1Mose antwortete und sprach: Siehe, sie werden mir nicht glauben und nicht auf mich hören, sondern werden sagen: Der HERR ist dir nicht erschienen.2Der HERR sprach zu ihm: Was hast du da in deiner Hand? Er sprach: Einen Stab.3Er aber sprach: Wirf ihn auf die Erde. Und er warf ihn auf die Erde; da ward er zur Schlange und Mose floh vor ihr. (2Mo 7,10)4Aber der HERR sprach zu ihm: Strecke deine Hand aus und erhasche sie beim Schwanz. Da streckte er seine Hand aus und ergriff sie, und sie ward zum Stab in seiner Hand.5»Damit sie glauben, dass dir erschienen ist der HERR, der Gott ihrer Väter, der Gott Abrahams, der Gott Isaaks, der Gott Jakobs.«6Und der HERR sprach weiter zu ihm: Stecke deine Hand in den Bausch deines Gewandes. Und er steckte sie hinein. Und als er sie wieder herauszog, siehe, da war sie aussätzig wie Schnee.7Und er sprach: Tu sie wieder in den Bausch deines Gewandes. Und er tat sie wieder hinein. Und als er sie herauszog, siehe, da war sie wieder wie sein anderes Fleisch.8»Wenn sie dir nun nicht glauben und nicht auf das erste Zeichen hören werden, so werden sie doch auf das andre Zeichen hören.9Wenn sie aber diesen zwei Zeichen nicht glauben und nicht auf dich hören werden, so nimm Wasser aus dem Nil und gieß es auf das trockene Land; dann wird das Wasser, das du aus dem Strom genommen hast, Blut werden auf dem trockenen Land.« (2Mo 7,17)10Mose aber sprach zu dem HERRN: Ach, mein Herr, ich bin von jeher nicht beredt gewesen, auch jetzt nicht, seitdem du mit deinem Knecht redest; denn ich hab eine schwere Sprache und eine schwere Zunge. (2Mo 3,11; 2Mo 6,12; 2Mo 6,30)11Der HERR sprach zu ihm: Wer hat dem Menschen den Mund geschaffen? Oder wer hat den Stummen oder Tauben oder Sehenden oder Blinden gemacht? Habe ich’s nicht getan, der HERR? (Ps 94,9)12Nun aber geh hin: Ich will mit deinem Munde sein und dich lehren, was du sagen sollst. (4Mo 12,8; 5Mo 18,18; Mt 10,19)13Mose aber sprach: Ach, mein Herr, sende, wen du senden willst.14Da wurde der HERR sehr zornig über Mose und sprach: Gibt es da nicht deinen Bruder Aaron, den Leviten? Ich weiß, dass er beredt ist. Und siehe, er wird dir entgegenkommen, und wenn er dich sieht, wird er sich von Herzen freuen.15Du sollst zu ihm reden und die Worte in seinen Mund legen. Und ich will mit deinem und seinem Munde sein und euch lehren, was ihr tun sollt.16Und er soll für dich zum Volk reden; er soll dein Mund sein, und du sollst für ihn Gott sein. (2Mo 7,1)17Und diesen Stab nimm in deine Hand, mit dem du die Zeichen tun sollst.
Moses Rückkehr nach Ägypten
18Mose ging hin und kam wieder zu Jitro, seinem Schwiegervater, und sprach zu ihm: Lass mich doch gehen, dass ich wieder zu meinen Brüdern komme, die in Ägypten sind, und sehe, ob sie noch leben. Jitro sprach zu ihm: Geh hin mit Frieden. (2Mo 3,1)19Auch sprach der HERR zu Mose in Midian: Geh hin und zieh wieder nach Ägypten, denn die Leute sind alle tot, die dir nach dem Leben trachteten.20So nahm denn Mose seine Frau und seine Söhne und setzte sie auf einen Esel und zog wieder nach Ägyptenland und nahm den Stab Gottes in seine Hand. (2Mo 2,22; 2Mo 18,3)21Und der HERR sprach zu Mose: Sieh zu, wenn du wieder nach Ägypten kommst, dass du alle die Wunder tust vor dem Pharao, die ich in deine Hand gegeben habe. Ich aber will sein Herz verstocken, dass er das Volk nicht ziehen lassen wird. (2Mo 7,3; 2Mo 7,13; 5Mo 29,3; Jes 6,10; Röm 9,18)22Und du sollst zu ihm sagen: So spricht der HERR: Israel ist mein erstgeborener Sohn; (5Mo 32,6)23und ich gebiete dir, dass du meinen Sohn ziehen lässt, dass er mir diene. Wirst du dich weigern, so will ich deinen erstgeborenen Sohn töten. (2Mo 11,5; 2Mo 12,29)24Und als Mose unterwegs in der Herberge war, kam ihm der HERR entgegen und wollte ihn töten. (1Mo 17,14; 1Mo 32,25)25Da nahm Zippora einen scharfen Stein und beschnitt ihrem Sohn die Vorhaut und berührte damit seine Scham und sprach: Du bist mir ein Blutbräutigam. (Jos 5,2)26Da ließ er von ihm ab. Sie sagte aber Blutbräutigam um der Beschneidung willen.27Und der HERR sprach zu Aaron: Geh hin Mose entgegen in die Wüste. Und er ging hin und begegnete ihm am Berge Gottes und küsste ihn.28Und Mose tat Aaron kund alle Worte des HERRN, die er ihm aufgetragen hatte, und alle Zeichen, die er ihm befohlen hatte.29Und sie gingen hin und versammelten alle Ältesten der Israeliten.30Und Aaron sagte alle Worte, die der HERR mit Mose geredet hatte, und Mose tat die Zeichen vor dem Volk.31Und das Volk glaubte. Und als sie hörten, dass der HERR sich der Israeliten angenommen und ihr Elend angesehen habe, neigten sie sich und beteten an. (2Mo 3,16; 2Mo 12,27; 2Mo 14,31)
1Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’”2The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” (2Mo 4,17; 2Mo 4,20)3And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it.4But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—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.” (2Mo 3,6; 2Mo 19,9)6Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.”[1] And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous[2] like snow. (4Mo 12,10; 2Kön 5,27)7Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh. (2Kön 5,14)8“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.9If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.” (2Mo 7,19)10But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” (2Mo 6,12; Jer 1,6)11Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?12Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” (2Mo 3,12; Jes 50,4; Jer 1,9; Hes 33,22; Mt 10,19; Mk 13,11; Lk 12,11; Lk 21,15)13But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.”14Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. (2Mo 4,27)15You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. (2Mo 4,12; 2Mo 7,1; 4Mo 22,38; 4Mo 23,5; 4Mo 23,12; 4Mo 23,16; 5Mo 18,18; 2Sam 14,3; 2Sam 14,19; Jes 51,16)16He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him. (2Mo 4,30; 2Mo 7,1; 2Mo 18,19)17And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.” (2Mo 4,2; 2Mo 7,15)
Moses Returns to Egypt
18Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” (2Mo 2,18)19And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” (2Mo 2,15; 2Mo 2,23; Mt 2,20)20So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand. (2Mo 17,9; 2Mo 18,2; 4Mo 20,8)21And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. (2Mo 3,20; 2Mo 7,13; 2Mo 7,22; 2Mo 8,15; 2Mo 8,32; 2Mo 9,12; 2Mo 9,35; 2Mo 10,1; 2Mo 14,8; 5Mo 2,30; Jos 11,20; Jes 63,17; Röm 9,17)22Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, (Jer 31,9; Hos 11,1)23and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’” (2Mo 11,5; 2Mo 12,29)24At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. (1Mo 17,14; 4Mo 22,22; 1Chr 21,16)25Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’[3] feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” (2Mo 2,21; Jos 5,2)26So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.27The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. (2Mo 3,1; 2Mo 4,14)28And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. (2Mo 4,3; 2Mo 4,15)29Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel. (2Mo 3,16)30Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people. (2Mo 4,16)31And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped. (1Mo 24,26; 2Mo 2,25; 2Mo 3,7; 2Mo 3,16; 2Mo 3,18; 2Mo 4,8; 2Mo 12,27; 1Chr 29,20)
2.Mose 4
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1And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.2And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.3And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.4And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:5That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.6And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.7And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.8And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.9And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land : and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land .10And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.11And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man' mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?12Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.13And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.14And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.15And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.16And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.17And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.19And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.20And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.21And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:23And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.24And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art , because of the circumcision.27And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.28And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.29And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:30And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.31And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.