Exodus 3

VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Moyses autem pascebat oves Jethro soceri sui sacerdotis Madian : cumque minasset gregem ad interiora deserti, venit ad montem Dei Horeb.	1 Moses was looking after the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led it to the far sideof the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2 Apparuitque ei Dominus in flamma ignis de medio rubi : et videbat quod rubus arderet, et non combureretur.	2 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame blazing from the middle of a bush. Moses looked;there was the bush blazing, but the bush was not being burnt up.
3 Dixit ergo Moyses : Vadam, et videbo visionem hanc magnam, quare non comburatur rubus.	3 Moses said, 'I must go across and see this strange sight, and why the bush is not being burnt up.'
4 Cernens autem Dominus quod pergeret ad videndum, vocavit eum de medio rubi, et ait : Moyses, Moyses. Qui respondit : Adsum.	4 When Yahweh saw him going across to look, God cal ed to him from the middle of the bush. 'Moses,Moses!' he said. 'Here I am,' he answered.
5 At ille : Ne appropies, inquit, huc : solve calceamentum de pedibus tuis : locus enim, in quo stas, terra sancta est.	5 'Come no nearer,' he said. 'Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
6 Et ait : Ego sum Deus patris tui, Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac et Deus Jacob. Abscondit Moyses faciem suam : non enim audebat aspicere contra Deum.	6 I am the God of your ancestors,' he said, 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.'At this Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
7 Cui ait Dominus : Vidi afflictionem populi mei in Ægypto, et clamorem ejus audivi propter duritiam eorum qui præsunt operibus :	7 Yahweh then said, 'I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying forhelp on account of their taskmasters. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings.
8 et sciens dolorem ejus, descendi ut liberem eum de manibus Ægyptiorum, et educam de terra illa in terram bonam, et spatiosam, in terram quæ fluit lacte et melle, ad loca Chananæi et Hethæi, et Amorrhæi, et Pherezæi, et Hevæi, et Jebusæi.	8 And I have come down to rescue them from the clutches of the Egyptians and bring them up out of thatcountry, to a country rich and broad, to a country flowing with milk and honey, to the home of the Canaanites, theHittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.
9 Clamor ergo filiorum Israël venit ad me : vidique afflictionem eorum, qua ab Ægyptiis opprimuntur.	9 Yes indeed, the Israelites' cry for help has reached me, and I have also seen the cruel way in which theEgyptians are oppressing them.
10 Sed veni, et mittam te ad Pharaonem, ut educas populum meum, filios Israël, de Ægypto.	10 So now I am sending you to Pharaoh, for you to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.'
11 Dixitque Moyses ad Deum : Quis sum ego ut vadam ad Pharaonem, et educam filios Israël de Ægypto ?	11 Moses said to God, 'Who am I to go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?'
12 Qui dixit ei : Ego ero tecum : et hoc habebis signum, quod miserim te : cum eduxeris populum meum de Ægypto, immolabis Deo super montem istum.	12 'I shal be with you,' God said, 'and this is the sign by which you wil know that I was the one who sentyou. After you have led the people out of Egypt, you wil worship God on this mountain.'
13 Ait Moyses ad Deum : Ecce ego vadam ad filios Israël, et dicam eis : Deus patrum vestrorum misit me ad vos. Si dixerint mihi : Quod est nomen ejus ? quid dicam eis ?	13 Moses then said to God, 'Look, if I go to the Israelites and say to them, "The God of your ancestorshas sent me to you," and they say to me, "What is his name?" what am I to tell them?'
14 Dixit Deus ad Moysen : Ego sum qui sum. Ait : Sic dices filiis Israël : Qui est, misit me ad vos.	14 God said to Moses, 'I am he who is.' And he said, 'This is what you are to say to the Israelites, "I amhas sent me to you." '
15 Dixitque iterum Deus ad Moysen : Hæc dices filiis Israël : Dominus Deus patrum vestrorum, Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac et Deus Jacob, misit me ad vos : hoc nomen mihi est in æternum, et hoc memoriale meum in generationem et generationem.	15 God further said to Moses, 'You are to tel the Israelites, "Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the Godof Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you." This is my name for al time, and thusI am to be invoked for al generations to come.
16 Vade, et congrega seniores Israël, et dices ad eos : Dominus Deus patrum vestrorum apparuit mihi, Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac et Deus Jacob, dicens : Visitans visitavi vos : et vidi omnia quæ acciderunt vobis in Ægypto.	16 'Go, gather the elders of Israel together and tel them, "Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, hasappeared to me -- the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob -- and has indeed visited you and seen what isbeing done to you in Egypt,
17 Et dixi ut educam vos de afflictione Ægypti in terram Chananæi, et Hethæi, et Amorrhæi, et Pherezæi, et Hevæi, et Jebusæi, ad terram fluentem lacte et melle.	17 and has said: I shall bring you out of the misery of Egypt to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites,the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a country flowing with milk and honey."
18 Et audient vocem tuam : ingredierisque tu, et seniores Israël, ad regem Ægypti, et dices ad eum : Dominus Deus Hebræorum vocavit nos : ibimus viam trium dierum in solitudinem, ut immolemus Domino Deo nostro.	18 They wil listen to your words, and you and the elders of Israel are to go to the king of Egypt and say tohim, "Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has encountered us. So now please al ow us to make a three-days'journey into the desert and sacrifice to Yahweh our God."
19 Sed ego scio quod non dimittet vos rex Ægypti ut eatis nisi per manum validam.	19 I am well aware that the king of Egypt wil not let you go unless he is compel ed by a mighty hand;
20 Extendam enim manum meam, et percutiam Ægyptum in cunctis mirabilibus meis, quæ facturus sum in medio eorum : post hæc dimittet vos.	20 he wil not let you go until I have stretched out my arm and struck Egypt with al the wonders I intend towork there.
21 Daboque gratiam populo huic coram Ægyptiis : et cum egrediemini, non exibitis vacui :	21 'I shal ensure that the Egyptians are so much impressed with this people that when you go, you willnot go empty-handed.
22 sed postulabit mulier a vicina sua et ab hospita sua, vasa argentea et aurea, ac vestes : ponetisque eas super filios et filias vestras, et spoliabitis Ægyptum.	22 Every woman wil ask her neighbour and the woman staying in her house for silver and goldenjewel ery, and clothing. In these you wil dress your own sons and daughters, despoiling the Egyptians of them.'