Chinese Union Bible (1919) - with Strong’s numbers

1摩西H4872回答H6030說H559：他們必不信H539我，也不聽H8085我的話H6963，必說H559：耶和華H3068並沒有向你顯現H7200。 2耶和華H3068對摩西說H559：你手H3027裡是甚麼？他說H559：是杖H4294。 3耶和華說H559：丟H7993在地上H776。他一丟H7993下去，就變作蛇H5175；摩西H4872便跑開H5127。 4耶和華H3068對摩西H4872說H559：伸出H7971手H3027來，拿H270住它的尾巴H2180，它必在你手H3709中仍變為杖H4294； 5如此好叫他們信H539耶和華H3068他們祖宗H1的神H430，就是亞伯拉罕H85的神H430，以撒H3327的神H430，雅各H3290的神H430，是向你顯現了H7200。 6耶和華H3068又H5750對他說H559：把手H3027放H935在懷裡H2436。他就把手H3027放H935在懷裡H2436，及至抽H3318出來，不料，手H3027長了大痲瘋H6879，有雪H7950那樣白。 7耶和華說H559：再H7725把手H3027放H7725在懷H2436裡。他就再H7725把手H3027放H7725在懷H2436裡，及至從懷H2436裡抽H3318出來，不料，手已經復原H7725，與周身的肉H1320一樣； 8又說：倘或他們不聽H8085你的話H6963，也不信H539頭一H7223個神蹟H226，他們必信H539第二H314個神蹟H226。 9這兩H8147個神蹟H226若都不信H539，也不聽H8085你的話H6963，你就從河H2975裡取H3947些水H4325，倒H8210在旱地H3004上，你從河H2975裡取H3947的水H4325必在旱地H3004上變作血H1818。 10摩西H4872對H413耶和華H3068說H559：主H136阿H994，我H376素日不是能言H1697的人，就是從H227你對僕人H5650說話H1696以後，也是這樣。我本是拙H3515口H6310笨H3515舌H3956的。 11耶和華H3068對他說H559：誰造H7760人H120的口H6310呢？誰使H7760人口啞H483、耳聾H2795、目明H6493、眼瞎H5787呢？豈不是我耶和華H3068麼？ 12現在去罷H3212，我必賜你口H6310才，指教H3384你所當說H1696的話。 13摩西說H559：主H136阿H994，你願意打發H7971誰，就打發H7971誰去罷！ 14耶和華H3068向摩西H4872發H2734怒H639說H559：不是有你的哥哥H251利未人H3881亞倫H175麼？我知道H3045他是能言H1696,H1696的；現在他出來H3318迎接H7125你，他一見H7200你，心H3820裡就歡喜H8055。 15你要將當說H1696的話H1697傳H7760給他；我也要賜你和他口H6310才，又要指教H3384你們所當行H6213的事。 16他要替你對百姓H5971說話H1696；你要以他當作口H6310，他要以你當作神H430。 17你手H3027裡要拿H3947這杖H4294，好行H6213神蹟H226。 18於是，摩西H4872回H7725到H3212他岳父H2859葉忒羅H3500那裡，對他說H559：求你容我回H7725去H3212見我在埃及H4714的弟兄H251，看H7200他們還H5750在H2416不在。葉忒羅H3503對摩西H4872說H559：你可以平平安安H7965地去罷H3212！ 19耶和華H3068在米甸H4080對摩西H4872說H559：你要回H7725埃及H4714去H3212，因為尋索H1245你命H5315的人H582都死了H4191。 20摩西H4872就帶著H3947妻子H802和兩個兒子H1121，叫他們騎H7392上驢H2543，回H7725埃及H4714地H776去。摩西H4872手H3027裡拿著H3947神H430的杖H4294。 21耶和華H3068對摩西H4872說H559：你回H7725到H3212埃及H4714的時候，要留意H7200將我指示H7760你的一切奇事H4159行H6213在法老H6547面前H6440。但我要使(或作：任憑；下同)他的心H3820剛硬H2388，他必不容百姓H5971去H7971。 22你要對法老H6547說H559：耶和華H3068這樣說H559：以色列H3478是我的兒子H1121，我的長子H1060。 23我對你說H559過：容我的兒子H1121去H7971，好事奉我H5647。你還是不肯H3985容他去H7971。看哪，我要殺H2026你的長子H1060,H1121。 24摩西在路H1870上住宿的地方H4411，耶和華H3068遇見他H6298，想要H1245殺H4191他。 25西坡拉H6855就拿H3947一塊火石H6864，割下H3772他兒子H1121的陽皮H6190，丟H5060在摩西腳H7272前，說H559：你真是我的血H1818郎H2860了。 26這樣，耶和華纔放H7503了他。西坡拉說H559：你因割禮H4139就是血H1818郎H2860了。 27耶和華H3068對亞倫H175說H559：你往曠野H4057去H3212迎接H7125摩西H4872。他就去H3212，在神H430的山H2022遇見H6298摩西，和他親嘴H5401。 28摩西H4872將耶和華H3068打發H7971他所說的言語H1697和囑咐H6680他所行的神蹟H226都告訴了H5046亞倫H175。 29摩西H4872、亞倫H175就去H3212招聚H622以色列H1121,H3478的眾長老H2205。 30亞倫H175將耶和華H3068對摩西H4872所說H1696的一切話H1697述說了H1696一遍，又在百姓H5971眼前H5869行了H6213那些神蹟H226， 31百姓H5971就信H539了。以色列H3478人H1121聽見H8085耶和華H3068眷顧H6485他們，鑒察H7200他們的困苦H6040，就低頭H6915下拜H7812。


Jamieson Fausset Brown Bible Commentary
 1   MIRACULOUS CHANGE OF THE ROD, &c. (Exo. 4:1-31)
But, behold--Hebrew, "If," "perhaps," "they will not believe me."--What evidence can I produce of my divine mission? There was still a want of full confidence, not in the character and divine power of his employer, but in His presence and power always accompanying him. He insinuated that his communication might be rejected and he himself treated as an impostor.

 2   the Lord said, . . . What is that in thine hand?--The question was put not to elicit information which God required, but to draw the particular attention of Moses.
A rod--probably the shepherd's crook--among the Arabs, a long staff, with a curved head, varying from three to six feet in length.

 6   Put now thine hand into thy bosom--the open part of his outer robe, worn about the girdle.

 9   take of the water of the river--Nile. Those miracles, two of which were wrought then, and the third to be performed on his arrival in Goshen, were at first designed to encourage him as satisfactory proofs of his divine mission, and to be repeated for the special confirmation of his embassy before the Israelites.

 10   I am not eloquent--It is supposed that Moses labored under a natural defect of utterance or had a difficulty in the free and fluent expression of his ideas in the Egyptian language, which he had long disused. This new objection was also overruled, but still Moses, who foresaw the manifold difficulties of the undertaking, was anxious to be freed from the responsibility.

 14   the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses--The Divine Being is not subject to ebullitions of passion; but His displeasure was manifested by transferring the honor of the priesthood, which would otherwise have been bestowed on Moses, to Aaron, who was from this time destined to be the head of the house of Levi (1Chr 23:13). Marvellous had been His condescension and patience in dealing with Moses; and now every remaining scruple was removed by the unexpected and welcome intelligence that his brother Aaron was to be his colleague. God knew from the beginning what Moses would do, but He reserves this motive to the last as the strongest to rouse his languid heart, and Moses now fully and cordially complied with the call. If we are surprised at his backwardness amidst all the signs and promises that were given him, we must admire his candor and honesty in recording it.

 18   Moses . . . returned to Jethro--Being in his service, it was right to obtain his consent, but Moses evinced piety, humility, and prudence, in not divulging the special object of his journey.

 19   all the men are dead which sought thy life--The death of the Egyptian monarch took place in the four hundred and twenty-ninth year of the Hebrew sojourn in that land, and that event, according to the law of Egypt, took off his proscription of Moses, if it had been publicly issued.

 20   Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass--Septuagint, "asses." Those animals are not now used in the desert of Sinai except by the Arabs for short distances.
returned--entered on his journey towards Egypt.
he took the rod of God--so called from its being appropriated to His service, and because whatever miracles it might be employed in performing would be wrought not by its inherent properties, but by a divine power following on its use. (Compare Acts 3:12).

 24   inn--Hebrew, "a halting place for the night."
the Lord met him, and sought to kill him--that is, he was either overwhelmed with mental distress or overtaken by a sudden and dangerous malady. The narrative is obscure, but the meaning seems to be, that, led during his illness to a strict self-examination, he was deeply pained and grieved at the thought of having, to please his wife, postponed or neglected the circumcision of one of his sons, probably the younger. To dishonor that sign and seal of the covenant was criminal in any Hebrew, peculiarly so in one destined to be the leader and deliverer of the Hebrews; and he seems to have felt his sickness as a merited chastisement for his sinful omission. Concerned for her husband's safety, Zipporah overcomes her maternal feelings of aversion to the painful rite, performs herself, by means of one of the sharp flints with which that part of the desert abounds, an operation which her husband, on whom the duty devolved, was unable to do, and having brought the bloody evidence, exclaimed in the painful excitement of her feelings that from love to him she had risked the life of her child [CALVIN, BULLINGER, ROSENMULLER].

 26   So he let him go--Moses recovered; but the remembrance of this critical period in his life would stimulate the Hebrew legislator to enforce a faithful attention to the rite of circumcision when it was established as a divine ordinance in Israel, and made their peculiar distinction as a people.

 27   Aaron met him in the mount of God, and kissed him--After a separation of forty years, their meeting would be mutually happy. Similar are the salutations of Arab friends when they meet in the desert still; conspicuous is the kiss on each side of the head.

 29   Moses and Aaron went--towards Egypt, Zipporah and her sons having been sent back. (Compare Exod 18:2).
gathered . . . all the elders--Aaron was spokesman, and Moses performed the appointed miracles--through which "the people" (that is, the elders) believed (1Kgs 17:24; Josh 3:2) and received the joyful tidings of the errand on which Moses had come with devout thanksgiving. Formerly they had slighted the message and rejected the messenger. Formerly Moses had gone in his own strength; now he goes leaning on God, and strong only through faith in Him who had sent him. Israel also had been taught a useful lesson, and it was good for both that they had been afflicted.