Ex 4:1Respondēns Mōysēs ait: Nōn crēdent mihi, neque audient vōcem meam, sed dīcent: Nōn appāruit tibi Dominus.Answering, Moses said: "They will not believe me, nor will they hear my voice, but they will say: 'The Lord has not appeared to you.'" Ex 4:2Dīxit ergō ad eum: Quid est quod tenēs in manū tuā?So he said to him: "What is it that you hold in your hand?" Ex 4:2Respondit: Virga.He answered: "A rod." Ex 4:3Dīxitque Dominus: Prōjice eam in terram.And the Lord said: "Throw it onto the ground." Ex 4:3Prōjēcit, et versa est in colubrum, ita ut fugeret Mōysēs.He threw it, and it was turned into a snake, so that Moses fled. Ex 4:4Dīxitque Dominus: Extende manum tuam, et apprehende caudam ejus.And the Lord said: "Stretch out your hand, and grasp its tail." Ex 4:4Extendit, et tenuit, versaque est in virgam.He stretched it out, and held it, and it was turned into a rod. Ex 4:5Ut crēdant, inquit, quod appāruerit tibi Dominus Deus patrum suōrum, Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac et Deus Jacob."So that they may believe," he said, "that the Lord, the God of their fathers, has appeared to you, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob."
Ex 4:6Dīxitque Dominus rūrsum: Mitte manum tuam in sinum tuum.And the Lord said again: "Put your hand into your bosom." Ex 4:6Quam cum mīsisset in sinum, prōtulit leprōsam īnstar nivis.And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it out leprous, like snow. Ex 4:7Retrahe, ait, manum tuam in sinum tuum."Draw back," he said, "your hand into your bosom." Ex 4:7Retrāxit, et prōtulit iterum, et erat similis carnī reliquae.He drew it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the rest of the flesh. Ex 4:8Sī nōn crēdiderint, inquit, tibi, neque audierint sermōnem signī priōris, crēdent verbō signī sequentis."If they do not believe you," he said, "nor hear the speech of the first sign, they will believe the word of the following sign. Ex 4:9Quod sī nec duōbus quidem hīs signīs crēdiderint, neque audierint vōcem tuam: sūme aquam flūminis, et effunde eam super āridam, et quidquid hauseris dē fluviō, vertētur in sanguinem.But if they do not believe even these two signs, nor hear your voice: take water of the river, and pour it out upon the dry land, and whatever you have drawn from the river will be turned into blood."
Ex 4:10Ait Mōysēs: Obsecrō, Domine, nōn sum ēloquēns ab herī et nūdiustertius: et ex quō locūtus es ad servum tuum, impedītiōris et tardiōris linguae sum.Moses said: "I beg you, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before: and since you have spoken to your servant, I am of a more hindered and slower tongue." Ex 4:11Dīxit Dominus ad eum: Quis fēcit ōs hominis?The Lord said to him: "Who made the mouth of man? Ex 4:11Aut quis fabricātus est mūtum et surdum, videntem et caecum?Or who fashioned the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? Ex 4:11Nōnne ego?Is it not I? Ex 4:12Perge, igitur, et ego erō in ōre tuō: docēbōque tē quid loquāris.Go on, therefore, and I will be in your mouth: and I will teach you what you are to speak." Ex 4:13At ille: Obsecrō, inquit, Domine, mitte quem missūrus es.But he: "I beg you," he said, "Lord, send whom you are going to send." Ex 4:14Īrātus Dominus in Moysēn, ait: Aarōn frāter tuus Lēvītēs, sciō quod ēloquēns sit: ecce ipse ēgreditur in occursum tuum, vidēnsque tē laetābitur corde.The Lord, angry with Moses, said: "Aaron your brother, the Levite, I know that he is eloquent: look, he himself is coming out to meet you, and seeing you he will rejoice in his heart.
Ex 4:15Loquere ad eum, et pōne verba mea in ōre ejus: et ego erō in ōre tuō, et in ōre illīus, et ostendam vōbīs quid agere dēbeātis.Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in your mouth, and in his mouth, and I will show you what you ought to do. Ex 4:16Ipse loquētur prō tē ad populum, et erit ōs tuum: tū autem eris eī in hīs quae ad Deum pertinent.He will speak for you to the people, and will be your mouth: but you will be to him in the things which belong to God. Ex 4:17Virgam quoque hanc sūme in manū tuā, in quā factūrus es signa.Take also this rod in your hand, with which you are going to do the signs." Ex 4:18Abiit Mōysēs, et reversus est ad Jethro socerum suum, dīxitque eī: Vādam et revertar ad frātrēs meōs in Aegyptum, ut videam sī adhūc vīvant.Moses went away, and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him: "I will go and return to my brothers in Egypt, so that I may see whether they are still alive." Ex 4:18Cui ait Jethro: Vāde in pāce.To him Jethro said: "Go in peace."
Ex 4:19Dīxit ergō Dominus ad Moysēn in Madian: Vāde, et revertere in Aegyptum, mortuī sunt enim omnēs quī quaerēbant animam tuam.So the Lord said to Moses in Midian: "Go, and return into Egypt, for all who were seeking your life are dead." Ex 4:20Tulit ergō Mōysēs uxōrem suam, et fīliōs suōs, et imposuit eōs super asinum: reversusque est in Aegyptum, portāns virgam Deī in manū suā.So Moses took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass: and he returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand. Ex 4:21Dīxitque eī Dominus revertentī in Aegyptum: Vidē ut omnia ostenta quae posuī in manū tuā, faciās cōram Pharaōne: ego indūrābō cor ejus, et nōn dīmittet populum.And the Lord said to him as he returned into Egypt: "See that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand: I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go. Ex 4:22Dīcēsque ad eum: Haec dīcit Dominus: Fīlius meus prīmogenitus Isrāël.And you will say to him: 'Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son. Ex 4:23Dīxī tibi: Dīmitte fīlium meum ut serviat mihi;I have said to you: Let my son go so that he may serve me; Ex 4:23Et nōluistī dīmittere eum: ecce ego interficiam fīlium tuum prīmogenitum.and you have refused to let him go: look, I will kill your firstborn son.'"
Ex 4:24Cumque esset in itinere, in dīversōriō occurrit eī Dominus, et volēbat occīdere eum.And when he was on the journey, at the inn the Lord met him, and wanted to kill him. Ex 4:25Tulit idcircō Sephora acūtissimam petram, et circumcīdit praepūtium fīliī suī, tetigitque pedēs ejus, et ait: Spōnsus sanguinum tū mihi es.For that reason Zipporah took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: "A bridegroom of bloods you are to me." Ex 4:26Et dīmīsit eum postquam dīxerat: Spōnsus sanguinum ob circumcīsiōnem.And he let him go after she had said: "A bridegroom of bloods because of the circumcision." Ex 4:27Dīxit autem Dominus ad Aarōn: Vāde in occursum Mōysī in dēsertum.But the Lord said to Aaron: "Go to meet Moses in the desert." Ex 4:27Quī perrēxit obviam eī in montem Deī, et ōsculātus est eum.And he went on to meet him at the mountain of God, and kissed him. Ex 4:28Narrāvitque Mōysēs Aarōn omnia verba Dominī quibus mīserat eum, et signa quae mandāverat.And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him, and the signs which he had commanded.
Ex 4:29Vēnēruntque simul, et congregāvērunt cūnctōs seniōrēs fīliōrum Isrāël.And they came together, and gathered all the elders of the sons of Israel. Ex 4:30Locūtusque est Aarōn omnia verba quae dīxerat Dominus ad Moysēn: et fēcit signa cōram populō, et crēdidit populus.And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses: and he did the signs before the people, and the people believed. Ex 4:31Audiēruntque quod vīsitāsset Dominus fīliōs Isrāël, et respexisset afflīctiōnem illōrum: et prōnī adōrāvērunt.And they heard that the Lord had visited the sons of Israel, and had looked upon their affliction: and bowing down they worshipped.