Exodus 4

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NOVA VULGATA
1 Responding, Moses said, “They will not believe me, and they will not listen to my voice, but they will say: ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’ ”	1 Respondens Moyses ait: “ Quid autem, si non credent mihi ne que audient vocem meam, sed dicent: "Non apparuit tibi Dominus?" ”.
2 Therefore, he said to him, “What is that you hold in your hand?” He answered, “A staff.”	2 Dixit ergo ad eum: “ Quid est quod tenes in manu tua? ”. Respondit: “ Virga ”.
3 And the Lord said, “Cast it down upon the ground.” He cast it down, and it was turned into a snake, so that Moses fled away.	3 Dixitque Dominus: “ Proice eam in terram! ”. Proiecit, et versa est in serpentem, ita ut fugeret Moyses.
4 And the Lord said, “Reach out your hand, and take hold of its tail.” He reached out his hand and took hold, and it was turned into a staff.	4 Dixitque Dominus: “ Extende manum tuam et apprehende caudam eius! ”. Extendit et tenuit, versaque est in virgam.
5 “So may they believe,” he said, “that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”	5 “ Ut credant, inquit, quod apparuerit tibi Dominus, Deus patrum suorum, Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac et Deus Iacob ”.
6 And the Lord said again, “Put your hand into your bosom.” And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it out leprous, resembling snow.	6 Dixitque Dominus rursum: “ Mitte manum tuam in sinum tuum! ”. Quam cum misisset in sinum, protulit leprosam instar nivis.
7 “Put your hand back,” he said, “into your bosom.” He put it back and brought it out again, and it was like the rest of his flesh.	7 “ Retrahe, ait, manum tuam in sinum tuum! ”. Retraxit et protulit iterum, et erat similis carni reliquae.
8 “If they will not believe you,” he said, “and will not listen to the sermon of the first sign, then they will believe the word of the subsequent sign.	8 “ Si non crediderint, inquit, tibi, neque audierint sermonem signi prioris, credent verbo signi sequentis.
9 But if they will not believe even these two signs, and they will not listen to your voice: take from the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land, and whatever you will have drawn from the river will be turned into blood.”	9 Quod si nec duobus quidem his signis crediderint neque audierint vocem tuam, sume aquam fluminis et effunde eam super aridam, et, quidquid hauseris de fluvio, vertetur in sanguinem ”.
10 Moses said: “I beg you, O Lord, I was not eloquent yesterday or the day before. And from the time that you have spoken to your servant, I have a greater impediment and slowness of tongue.”	10 Ait Moyses: “ Obsecro, Domine, non sum eloquens ab heri et nudiustertius et ex quo locutus es ad servum tuum, nam impeditioris et tardioris linguae sum ”.
11 The Lord said to him: “Who made the mouth of man? And who has formed the mute and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? Was it not I?	11 Dixit Dominus ad eum: “ Quis fecit os hominis? Aut quis fabricatus est mutum vel surdum vel videntem vel caecum? Nonne ego?
12 Go on, therefore, and I will be in your mouth. And I will teach you what you shall say.”	12 Perge igitur, et ego ero in ore tuo; doceboque te quid loquaris ”.
13 But he said, “I beg you, O Lord, send whomever else you would send.”	13 At ille: “ Obsecro, inquit, Domine, mitte quem missurus es ”.
14 The Lord, being angry at Moses, said: “Aaron the Levite is your brother. I know that he is eloquent. Behold, he is going out to meet you, and seeing you, he will rejoice in heart.	14 Iratus Dominus in Moysen ait: “ Aaron, frater tuus Levites, scio quod eloquens sit; ecce ipse egreditur in occursum tuum vidensque te laetabitur corde.
15 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth. And I will be in your mouth and in his mouth, and I will reveal to you what you must do.	15 Loquere ad eum et pone verba mea in ore eius; et ego ero in ore tuo et in ore illius et ostendam vobis quid agere debeatis.
16 He will speak for you to the people, and he will be your mouth. But you will be with him in those things that pertain to God.	16 Ipse loquetur pro te ad populum et erit os tuum; tu autem eris ei ut Deus.
17 Also, take this staff into your hand; with it you will accomplish the signs.”	17 Virgam quoque hanc sume in manu tua, in qua facturus es signa ”.
18 Moses went forth, and he returned to Jethro, his father in law, and he said to him, “I shall go and return to my brothers in Egypt, so that I may see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to him, “Go in peace.”	18 Abiit Moyses et reversus est ad Iethro socerum suum dixitque ei: “ Vadam, quaeso, et revertar ad fratres meos in Aegyptum, ut videam, si adhuc vivant ”. Cui ait Iethro: “ Vade in pace ”.
19 And so the Lord said to Moses in Midian: “Go, and return to Egypt. For all those who sought your life have died.”	19 Dixit ergo Dominus ad Moysen in Madian: “ Vade, revertere in Aegyptum; mortui sunt enim omnes, qui quaerebant animam tuam ”.
20 Therefore, Moses took his wife and his sons, and he placed them upon a donkey, and he returned into Egypt, carrying the staff of God in his hand.	20 Tulit Moyses uxorem suam et filios suos et imposuit eos super asinum; reversusque est in Aegyptum portans virgam Dei in manu sua.
21 And the Lord said to him, as he was returning to Egypt: “See that you accomplish, in the sight of Pharaoh, all the wonders that I have placed in your hand. I will harden his heart, and he will not release the people.	21 Dixitque ei Dominus revertenti in Aegyptum: “ Vide, ut omnia ostenta, quae posui in manu tua, facias coram pharaone; ego indurabo cor eius, et non dimittet populum.
22 And you shall say to him: ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.	22 Dicesque ad eum: Haec dicit Dominus: Filius meus primogenitus Israel.
23 I have said to you: Release my son, so that he may serve me. And you were not willing to release him. Behold, I will put to death your firstborn son.’ ”	23 Dico tibi: Dimitte filium meum, ut serviat mihi; si autem non vis dimittere eum, ecce ego interficiam filium tuum primogenitum ”.
24 And while he was on the journey, at an inn, the Lord met him, and he was willing to kill him.	24 Cumque esset in itinere, in deversorio, occurrit ei Dominus et volebat occidere eum.
25 For this reason, Zipporah took a very sharp stone, and she circumcised the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, “You are a bloody spouse to me.”	25 Tulit ilico Sephora acutissimam petram et circumcidit praeputium filii sui; tetigitque pedes eius et ait: “ Sponsus sanguinum tu mihi es ”.
26 And he released him, after she had said, “You are a bloody spouse,” because of the circumcision.	26 Et dimisit eum, postquam dixerat: “ Sponsus sanguinum ”, ob circumcisionem.
27 Then the Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the desert to meet Moses.” And he went directly to meet him on the mountain of God, and he kissed him.	27 Dixit autem Dominus ad Aaron: “ Vade in occursum Moysi in desertum ”. Qui perrexit obviam ei in montem Dei et osculatus est eum.
28 And Moses explained to Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs which he had commanded.	28 Narravitque Moyses Aaron omnia verba Domini, quibus miserat eum, et signa, quae mandaverat.
29 And they arrived at the same time, and they gathered together all the elders of the sons of Israel.	29 Veneruntque simul et congregaverunt cunctos seniores filiorum Israel.
30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses. And he accomplished the signs in the sight of the people,	30 Locutusque est Aaron omnia verba, quae dixerat Dominus ad Moysen, et fecit signa coram populo.
31 and the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the sons of Israel, and that he had looked with favor upon their affliction. And falling prostrate, they worshiped.	31 Et credidit populus, audieruntque quod visitasset Dominus filios Israel et quod respexisset afflictionem eorum; et proni adoraverunt.