1 And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, Jehovah has not appeared to thee. 2 And Jehovah said to him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A staff. 3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand and take it by the tail — and he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand — 5 that they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. 6 And Jehovah said moreover to him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom, and took it out, and behold, his hand was leprous, as snow. 7 And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again, and took it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again as his flesh. 8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the other sign. 9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also those two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour [it] on the dry [land]; and the water that thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry [land]. 10 And Moses said to Jehovah, Ah Lord! I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since thou hast spoken to thy servant, for I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue. 11 And Jehovah said to him, Who gave man a mouth? or who maketh dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? [have] not I, Jehovah? 12 And now go, and I will be with thy mouth, and will teach thee what thou shalt say. 13 And he said, Ah Lord! send, I pray thee, by the hand [of him whom] thou wilt send. 14 Then the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also behold, he goeth out to meet thee; and when he seeth thee he will be glad in his heart. 15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. 16 And he shall speak for thee unto the people; and it shall come to pass that he shall be to thee for a mouth, and thou shalt be to him for God. 17 And thou shalt take this staff in thy hand, with which thou shalt do the signs. 18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, that I may see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. 19 And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt; for all the men are dead who sought thy life. 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them riding upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand. 21 And Jehovah said to Moses, When thou goest to return to Egypt, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put in thy hand. And I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. 22 And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah: Israel is my son, my firstborn. 23 And I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me. And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill thy son, thy firstborn. 24 And it came to pass on the way, in the inn, that Jehovah came upon him, and sought to slay him. 25 Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me! 26 And he let him go. Then she said, A bloody husband — because of the circumcision. 27 And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him on the mountain of God, and kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah who had sent him, and all the signs that he had commanded him. 29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the children of Israel; 30 and Aaron spoke all the words that Jehovah had spoken to Moses, and did the signs before the eyes of the people. 31 And the people believed. And when they heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Éxodo 4 Traducción de Darby
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Personas y lugares de este capítulo
Del árbol genealógico y los mapas bíblicos de este sitio (en inglés), solo donde esas guías citan este capítulo.
Personas
Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Citado en la guía: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Citado en la guía: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Zipporah
The Midianite daughter of Jethro who became Moses' wife in the wilderness.
Citado en la guía: Exodus 2:16-22; Exodus 4:24-26; Exodus 18
Referencias cruzadas (30)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Éxodo 3:18; Éxodo 4:31; Jeremías 1:6; Éxodo 2:14; Hechos 7:25
- 2 Éxodo 4:20; Éxodo 4:17; Salmo 110:2; Isaías 11:4; Génesis 30:37
- 3 Éxodo 7:10–15; Amós 5:19; Éxodo 4:17
- 4 Marcos 16:18; Hechos 28:3–6; Lucas 10:19; Salmo 91:13; Juan 2:5
- 5 Éxodo 19:9; Génesis 26:2; Éxodo 3:15; Génesis 12:7; Génesis 48:3
- 6 2 Reyes 5:27; Números 12:10
- 7 2 Reyes 5:14; Deuteronomio 32:39; Mateo 8:3; Números 12:13–15
- 8 Isaías 28:10; Deuteronomio 32:39; Éxodo 4:30–31; 2 Reyes 5:7; Job 5:18
- 9 Éxodo 1:22; Éxodo 7:19–25; Mateo 7:2
- 10 Jeremías 1:6; Éxodo 6:12; Hechos 7:22; Éxodo 4:1; 2 Corintios 11:6
- 11 Salmo 146:8; Isaías 6:7; Amós 3:6; Salmo 94:9; Ezequiel 3:26–27
- 12 Jeremías 1:9; Lucas 12:11–12; Mateo 10:19–20; Lucas 21:14–15; Marcos 13:11
- 13 Jonás 1:3; Éxodo 4:1; Ezequiel 3:14–15; Jonás 1:6; Juan 6:29
- 14 Marcos 14:13–15; 1 Crónicas 21:7; Éxodo 4:27; 2 Corintios 7:6–7; Filipenses 2:21
- 15 Isaías 51:16; Deuteronomio 18:18; Números 23:16; Números 23:12; Lucas 21:15
- 16 Éxodo 7:1–2; Salmo 82:6; Juan 10:34–35; Éxodo 18:19
- 17 Éxodo 4:2; 1 Corintios 1:27; Éxodo 7:9–20
- 18 Éxodo 3:1; Lucas 7:50; 1 Timoteo 6:1; Hechos 16:36; Génesis 45:3
- 19 Mateo 2:20; Éxodo 2:23; Éxodo 2:15
- 20 Éxodo 17:9; Números 20:8–9; Éxodo 4:2; Éxodo 18:3–4; Números 20:11
- 21 Romanos 9:18; Josué 11:20; Isaías 63:17; Éxodo 14:8; Éxodo 7:13
- 22 Oseas 11:1; Romanos 9:4; Jeremías 31:9; Hebreos 12:23; Deuteronomio 14:1
- 23 Éxodo 12:29; Éxodo 11:5; Salmo 135:8; Salmo 105:36; Éxodo 5:1
- 24 Génesis 17:14; Números 22:22–23; 1 Crónicas 21:16; Levítico 10:3; Éxodo 3:18
- 25 Josué 5:2–3; Génesis 17:14; 2 Samuel 16:7
- 27 Éxodo 3:1; Hechos 10:5–6; Eclesiastés 4:9; Éxodo 20:18; Hechos 10:20
- 28 Éxodo 4:15–16; Éxodo 4:8–9; Mateo 21:29; Jonás 3:2
- 29 Éxodo 3:16; Éxodo 24:11; Éxodo 24:1
- 30 Éxodo 4:16
- 31 Éxodo 3:18; Éxodo 12:27; Éxodo 2:25; Salmo 106:12–13; Éxodo 3:16
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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Cómo se eligieron
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And nevertheless Moses feared and fled. What is it that Moses fled from that serpent?
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)