3:1 摩西牧养他岳父米甸祭司叶忒罗的羊群。一日领羊群往野外去，到了 神的山，就是何烈山。
3:1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
3:2 耶和华的使者从荆棘里火焰中向摩西显现。摩西观看，不料，荆棘被火烧着，却没有烧毁。
3:2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
3:3 摩西说：“我要过去看这大异象，这荆棘为何没有烧坏呢？”
3:3 So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight-why the bush does not burn up."
3:4 耶和华 神见他过去要看，就从荆棘里呼叫说：“摩西！摩西！”他说：“我在这里。”
3:4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."
3:5 神说：“不要近前来。当把你脚上的鞋脱下来，因为你所站之地是圣地。”
3:5 "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."
3:6 又说：“我是你父亲的 神，是亚伯拉罕的 神，以撒的 神，雅各的 神。”摩西蒙上脸，因为怕看 神。
3:6 Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
3:7 耶和华说：“我的百姓在埃及所受的困苦，我实在看见了；他们因受督工的辖制所发的哀声，我也听见了；我原知道他们的痛苦。
3:7 The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
3:8 我下来是要救他们脱离埃及人的手，领他们出了那地，到美好宽阔、流奶与蜜之地，就是到迦南人、赫人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人之地。
3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey-the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
3:9 现在以色列人的哀声达到我耳中，我也看见埃及人怎样欺压他们。
3:9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
3:10 故此，我要打发你去见法老，使你可以将我的百姓以色列人从埃及领出来。”
3:10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."
3:11 摩西对 神说：“我是什么人，竟能去见法老，将以色列人从埃及领出来呢？”
3:11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"
3:12 神说：“我必与你同在，你将百姓从埃及领出来之后，你们必在这山上事奉我，这就是我打发你去的证据。”
3:12 And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain."
3:13 摩西对 神说：“我到以色列人那里，对他们说：‘你们祖宗的 神打发我到你们这里来。’他们若问我说：‘他叫什么名字？’我要对他们说什么呢？”
3:13 Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?"
3:14 神对摩西说：“我是自有永有的。”又说：“你要对以色列人这样说：‘那自有的打发我到你们这里来。’”
3:14 God said to Moses, "I am who I am . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' "
3:15 神又对摩西说：“你要对以色列人这样说：‘耶和华你们祖宗的 神，就是亚伯拉罕的 神，以撒的 神，雅各的 神，打发我到你们这里来。’耶和华是我的名，直到永远，这也是我的记念，直到万代。
3:15 God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The LORD , the God of your fathers-the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob-has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.
3:16 你去招聚以色列的长老，对他们说：‘耶和华你们祖宗的 神，就是亚伯拉罕的 神，以撒的 神，雅各的 神，向我显现，说：我实在眷顾了你们，我也看见埃及人怎样待你们。
3:16 "Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, 'The LORD , the God of your fathers-the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
3:17 我也说：要将你们从埃及的困苦中领出来，往迦南人、赫人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人的地去，就是到流奶与蜜之地。’
3:17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites-a land flowing with milk and honey.'
3:18 他们必听你的话。你和以色列的长老要去见埃及王，对他说：‘耶和华希伯来人的 神遇见了我们，现在求你容我们往旷野去，走三天的路程，为要祭祀耶和华我们的 神。’
3:18 "The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, 'The LORD , the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.'
3:19 我知道虽用大能的手，埃及王也不容你们去。
3:19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him.
3:20 我必伸手在埃及中间，施行我一切的奇事，攻击那地，然后他才容你们去。
3:20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.
3:21 我必叫你们在埃及人眼前蒙恩，你们去的时候，就不至于空手而去。
3:21 "And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.
3:22 但各妇女必向她的邻舍，并居住在她家里的女人，要金器、银器和衣裳，好给你们的儿女穿戴。这样你们就把埃及人的财物夺去了。”
3:22 Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians."
Views: 56