出埃及記 第 6 章

And the Lord said to Moyses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharao; for by a mighty hand he will send them away, and with an uplifted arm he will drive them out of his land.”

And God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am the Lord.

And I appeared to Abraam and Isaak and Iakob, being their God; but my name "Lord" I did not make known to them.

And I established my covenant with them, so as to give them the land of the Chananites, the land in which they have sojourned, in which they also sojourned upon it.

And I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, in that the Egyptians enslave them, and I remembered your covenant.

Go, speak to the sons of Israel, saying: I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the dominion of the Egyptians, and I will rescue you from the slavery, and I will redeem you with a lofty arm and great judgment.

And I will take you to myself as a people for me, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the oppression of the Egyptians.

And I will bring you into the land into which I stretched out my hand to give it to Abraam and Isaak and Iakob, and I will give it to you as an inheritance. I am the Lord."

So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses because of their faintheartedness and because of the hard works.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

"Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he send out the sons of Israel from his land."

But Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, "Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; and how shall Pharaoh listen to me? And I am without eloquence."

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt, so as to send out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt.

And these are the chiefs of their ancestral houses: the sons of Rouben, Israel's firstborn: Enoch and Phallous, Asron and Charmi; this is the kindred of Rouben.

And the sons of Symeon: Iemouel and Iamin and Aod and Iachin and Saar and Saoul, the son of the Phoenician woman; these are the ancestral families of the sons of Symeon.

And these are the names of the sons of Leui according to their kindreds: Gedson, Kaath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Leui were one hundred thirty-seven.

And these are the sons of Gedson: Lobeni and Semei, the houses of their ancestral family.

And the sons of Kaath: Ambram and Issaar, Chebron and Oziel. And the years of the life of Kaath were one hundred thirty years.

And the sons of Merari: Mooli and Omousi. These are the houses of the ancestral families of Leui according to their kindreds.

And Ambram took for himself Iochabed, the daughter of his father's brother, as a wife, and she bore to him Aaron and Moses and Mariam their sister. And the years of the life of Ambram were one hundred thirty-two years.

And the sons of Issaar: Kore and Naphek and Zechri.

And the sons of Oziel: Elisaphan and Setri.

And Aaron took Elisabeth, the daughter of Aminadab, the sister of Naasson, to himself as a wife, and she bore to him Nadab and Abioud and Eleazar and Ithamar.

And the sons of Kore: Asir and Elkana and Abiasaph; these are the generations of Kore.

And Eleazar the son of Aaron took one of the daughters of Phoutiel to himself as a wife, and she bore to him Phinees. These are the heads of the ancestral family of the Leuites according to their generations.

This is the Aaron and Moses to whom God said to bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt with their host.

These are the ones who argued with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and they brought out the sons of Israel from Egypt; this same Aaron and Moses.

On the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "I am the Lord. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you."

And Moses said before the Lord, "Behold, I am feeble of voice, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?"