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1 Pero Moisés le respondió a Dios: ―No me creerán ni harán lo que les diga. Al contrario, me dirán: “¡El Señor no se te ha aparecido!”.
1 Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”
2 ―¿Qué tienes en la mano? —le preguntó el Señor. ―Una vara de pastor —le respondió Moisés.
2 Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”
3 ―Tírala al suelo —le ordenó el Señor. Cuando la arrojó, la vara se convirtió en una serpiente, y Moisés retrocedió al verla.
3 He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
4 ―Tómala de la cola —le dijo el Señor. Él lo hizo, y la serpiente volvió a convertirse en vara.
4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.” He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.
5 ―Haz eso y te creerán —le dijo el Señor—, pues comprenderán que me has visto a mí, que soy el Señor Dios de sus antepasados Abraham, Isaac y Jacob.
5 “This is so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
6 Ahora, mete tu mano dentro de tu ropa y tócate el pecho. Moisés metió la mano y la volvió a sacar. ¡Estaba blanca de lepra!
6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.” He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
7 ―Hazlo otra vez —le dijo Dios. Cuando Moisés metió la mano y la volvió a sacar, estaba normal, completamente sana.
7 He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
8 ―Si no creen al primer milagro, creerán al segundo —le dijo el Señor—.
8 “It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
9 Si no aceptan el segundo, toma agua del Nilo y derrámala en tierra seca. Tan pronto el agua caiga al suelo, se convertirá en sangre.
9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”
10 Pero Moisés insistió: ―Señor, tú sabes que nunca me he distinguido por ser un buen orador. Es un problema que tengo desde mucho antes de que tú me hablaras. ¡Me cuesta mucho trabajo expresarme bien!
10 Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
11 ―¿Quién hizo la boca? —le preguntó el Señor—. ¿No la hice yo, el Señor? ¿Quién hace que el hombre pueda o no pueda hablar, que vea o no vea, que oiga o no oiga?
11 Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
12 Ahora ve y haz lo que te dije, porque yo te ayudaré a expresarte bien, y te diré lo que tienes que decir.
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”
13 Moisés le dijo: ―Señor, por favor, envía a otra persona.
13 Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
14 El Señor se enojó con Moisés y le dijo: ―¡Muy bien! Tu hermano Aarón habla bien. Él vendrá a buscarte y se alegrará mucho cuando te encuentre.
14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
15 Yo te diré lo que tienes que decirle; yo los ayudaré a ambos para que hablen bien, y les diré lo que deben hacer.
15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
16 Yo te diré lo que debes comunicarle a Aarón, y él hablará por ti al pueblo, y será como si tú mismo estuvieras hablándole a la gente.
16 He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
17 Llévate la vara para que puedas realizar los milagros que te he mostrado.
17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
18 Moisés volvió a casa y habló de esto con Jetro, su suegro. ―Con tu permiso —le dijo Moisés—, iré a Egipto para ver cómo están mis hermanos. Ni siquiera sé si viven aún. ―Ve con mi bendición —contestó Jetro.
18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19 Antes de que Moisés saliera de Madián, el Señor le dijo: ―No tengas miedo de regresar a Egipto, porque los que querían matarte han muerto.
19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”
20 Moisés tomó a su esposa y a sus hijos, los puso sobre un burro, y regresó a la tierra de Egipto, llevando en la mano la vara de Dios.
20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.
21 Y el Señor le dijo: ―Cuando hayas regresado a Egipto tienes que hacer delante del faraón los milagros que te mostré. Sin embargo, yo haré que el faraón se niegue a dejar salir al pueblo.
21 Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
22 Así que tú le dirás: “El Señor dice: ‘Israel es mi hijo primogénito,
22 You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
23 y yo te he ordenado que lo dejes salir, para que vaya a adorarme, pero te has negado. Por lo tanto, mataré a tu primogénito’ ”.
23 and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”
24 Durante el viaje, Moisés y su familia se detuvieron para pasar la noche. Allí el Señor se le apareció y amenazó con matarlo.
24 On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.
25 Pero Séfora, la esposa de Moisés, tomó un cuchillo de pedernal y cortó el prepucio del pene de su hijo. Luego, con el prepucio tocó los genitales de Moisés, y le dijo: ―Me has resultado un marido de sangre. Entonces Dios lo dejó ir.
25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
26 Not in this translation
26 So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
27 Mientras tanto, el Señor le había dicho a Aarón: ―Ve al desierto a encontrarte con Moisés. Aarón viajó hasta Horeb, el monte de Dios, y allí se encontró con Moisés, y ambos se saludaron con mucho cariño.
27 Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.
28 Moisés le contó a Aarón lo que Dios le había dicho que debían hacer y lo que tenían que decir, y le habló de los milagros que debían hacer en presencia del faraón.
28 Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.
29 Moisés y Aarón regresaron a Egipto y convocaron a los ancianos a una reunión.
29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
30 Aarón les contó lo que el Señor le había dicho a Moisés; y Moisés realizó delante de ellos los milagros que debía hacer en presencia del faraón.
30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31 Los ancianos creyeron que el Señor los había enviado. Y cuando supieron que el Señor los había visitado, que había visto sus sufrimientos y había decidido rescatarlos, se regocijaron, se arrodillaron y lo adoraron.
31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Zipporah
The Midianite daughter of Jethro who became Moses' wife in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2:16-22; Exodus 4:24-26; Exodus 18
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 3:18; Exodus 4:31; Jeremiah 1:6; Exodus 2:14; Acts 7:25
- 2 Exodus 4:20; Exodus 4:17; Psalm 110:2; Isaiah 11:4; Genesis 30:37
- 3 Exodus 7:10–15; Amos 5:19; Exodus 4:17
- 4 Mark 16:18; Acts 28:3–6; Luke 10:19; Psalm 91:13; John 2:5
- 5 Exodus 19:9; Genesis 26:2; Exodus 3:15; Genesis 12:7; Genesis 48:3
- 6 2 Kings 5:27; Numbers 12:10
- 7 2 Kings 5:14; Deuteronomy 32:39; Matthew 8:3; Numbers 12:13–15
- 8 Isaiah 28:10; Deuteronomy 32:39; Exodus 4:30–31; 2 Kings 5:7; Job 5:18
- 9 Exodus 1:22; Exodus 7:19–25; Matthew 7:2
- 10 Jeremiah 1:6; Exodus 6:12; Acts 7:22; Exodus 4:1; 2 Corinthians 11:6
- 11 Psalm 146:8; Isaiah 6:7; Amos 3:6; Psalm 94:9; Ezekiel 3:26–27
- 12 Jeremiah 1:9; Luke 12:11–12; Matthew 10:19–20; Luke 21:14–15; Mark 13:11
- 13 Jonah 1:3; Exodus 4:1; Ezekiel 3:14–15; Jonah 1:6; John 6:29
- 14 Mark 14:13–15; 1 Chronicles 21:7; Exodus 4:27; 2 Corinthians 7:6–7; Philippians 2:21
- 15 Isaiah 51:16; Deuteronomy 18:18; Numbers 23:16; Numbers 23:12; Luke 21:15
- 16 Exodus 7:1–2; Psalm 82:6; John 10:34–35; Exodus 18:19
- 17 Exodus 4:2; 1 Corinthians 1:27; Exodus 7:9–20
- 18 Exodus 3:1; Luke 7:50; 1 Timothy 6:1; Acts 16:36; Genesis 45:3
- 19 Matthew 2:20; Exodus 2:23; Exodus 2:15
- 20 Exodus 17:9; Numbers 20:8–9; Exodus 4:2; Exodus 18:3–4; Numbers 20:11
- 21 Romans 9:18; Joshua 11:20; Isaiah 63:17; Exodus 14:8; Exodus 7:13
- 22 Hosea 11:1; Romans 9:4; Jeremiah 31:9; Hebrews 12:23; Deuteronomy 14:1
- 23 Exodus 12:29; Exodus 11:5; Psalm 135:8; Psalm 105:36; Exodus 5:1
- 24 Genesis 17:14; Numbers 22:22–23; 1 Chronicles 21:16; Leviticus 10:3; Exodus 3:18
- 25 Joshua 5:2–3; Genesis 17:14; 2 Samuel 16:7
- 27 Exodus 3:1; Acts 10:5–6; Ecclesiastes 4:9; Exodus 20:18; Acts 10:20
- 28 Exodus 4:15–16; Exodus 4:8–9; Matthew 21:29; Jonah 3:2
- 29 Exodus 3:16; Exodus 24:11; Exodus 24:1
- 30 Exodus 4:16
- 31 Exodus 3:18; Exodus 12:27; Exodus 2:25; Psalm 106:12–13; Exodus 3:16
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What the Fathers said
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And nevertheless Moses feared and fled. What is it that Moses fled from that serpent?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
Thus Moses also first is in fear of the serpent, and not merely in fear, but even with much distress: and then he sees that strange thing come to pass. So these too, having first looked to perish, were then saved, that having confessed the danger, they might learn the greatness of the miracle.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… have a thing which without doubt we can ascribe to them; the dyings of the beasts, the dyings of the first-born, and this especially whence all these things proceeded, namely, the hardening of heart, so that they would not let go the people of God. For when God is said to make this most iniquitous and malignant obstinacy, He maketh …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… in behalf of heartless and disobedient men; and by the very persons who were saved by them, they were brought into extreme danger; and each of them wishing to withdraw men from idolatry; and each being unlearned; for the one was of a "slow tongue," and dull of speech, and the other for his part also somewhat of the rudest …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)