14耶和華對摩西說:「法老非常頑固,不肯釋放百姓。15明天早晨,法老會去尼羅河邊,你就在那裡等他,要拿著曾變成蛇的手杖。16你要對他說,『希伯來人的上帝耶和華差遣我來告訴你,要讓祂的子民到曠野去事奉祂,但到如今你還是不肯。17所以祂說要用手杖擊打尼羅河水,使河水變成血,好叫你知道祂是耶和華。18河裡的魚會死,河水會發臭,埃及人不能再喝尼羅河的水。』」19耶和華對摩西說:「你告訴亞倫,讓他向埃及境內的各江河、溪流、池塘伸杖,使水變成血。埃及境內,包括木桶和石缸裡將到處是血。」20摩西和亞倫就按著耶和華所吩咐的去做,亞倫在法老和埃及眾臣僕面前舉杖擊打尼羅河水,河水都變成了血。21河裡的魚都死了,河水臭得不能飲用。埃及遍地都是血。22可是,法老的巫師也一樣用邪術使水變成血。法老的心仍然剛硬,不肯聽從摩西和亞倫的話,正如耶和華所言。23法老若無其事地轉身回宮去了。24因為河水不能飲用,埃及人就在尼羅河兩岸掘井取水飲用。25擊打河水後,七天過去了。
English Standard Version
Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh
1And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.2You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.3But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,4Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.5The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”6Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.7Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.8Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,9“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”10So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.11Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts.12For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.13Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood
14Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.15Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent.16And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.” But so far, you have not obeyed.17Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.18The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’”19And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”20Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood.21And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.22But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.23Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.24And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.25Seven full days passed after the Lord had struck the Nile.
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