Exodus - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 54

4--7 IO II I2 16 Appr0ach not!

Put 0H your shoes from your feet, for the place upon which you stand is I AM the Gon of your fathers :··—-the Gon of Abraham, and the GOD of Isaac, and the GOD of jacob! Then Moses hid his face, for he feared to gaze upon GOD. I have seen the

suffering of My PEOPLE who are in Mitzeraim and I have heard their shrieks before their drivers, and I have understood their sorrows, and I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Mitzerites, and to take them up from that country to a good land, and a spacious; toaland flowing with milk and honey,·—-to re- place the Cananites, and the Hitites, and the Amorites, and the Perizites, and the Ivites, and jebusites. For the cries of the children of Israel have now come to Me, and I have seen the oppression with which the Mitzerites opprese them; therefore you must go, and I will send you to Pharoh, to bring My PE01>1.E, the children of Israel, up from the Mitzeraim. Who

am I, that I should go to Pharoh ? and that I should lead the children of Israel up from among the Mitzeraim? ' Because

I will be with you ;—therefore go. For I have sent you to lead the people from the Mitzeraim, and they shall serve GOD upon this mountain I ’ Sup·

posing I should go to the children of Israel, and should say to them, ‘ The GOD of your fathers has sent me to you,i’ and they should ask me, ‘ What is His name ?’··~—what am I to say to them P * ‘ I

AM wmlr I AM! Therefore say *1 And GOD You shall say thus to the children of Israel; l`he Evslerxvmc; GOD of your fore- fathers ;-—-the GOD of Abraham, and the GOD of Isaac, and the GOD of jacob, has sent me to you. This is My Name from Eternity, and I re- member this from generation to generation. Go and assemble the Chiefs of Israel, and say to them, The Evan-mvme GOD of your fathers has appeared to me, the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and jacob, and said; I have visited you, and I will save you from the Mitzerites. Therefore I command you to go from among the Mitzerites to the land of the Cananites, and the Hitites, and the Amorites, and the Perizites, and the Hivites, and the jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey;’ and they will listen to your voice. Then go, you and the Chiefs of Israel, to the king of the Mitzeraim, and say to him, ‘ The Evan-Lrvmo Gon of your servants has commanded us, there- fore we pray let us go a three days' journey into the desert and offer sac- rifice to our Even-mvmo Gon! But I know that the king of the Mit— zeraim will not permit you to go, except by a strong hand. C0nse· quently I shall stretch out My hand and strike the Mitzerites with all the wonders that I will do within their bounds, and afterwards he will send you away. Then I will give this People favour in the eyes of the Mit- zerites, so that it shall be when they march, they shall not march unpro- vided, but every woman shall demand of her neighbour and from the guests in her house, ornaments of silver, and ornaments of gold, and clothing, and 18 20 21 22 put them upon her sons and daughters, and shall strip the Mitzerites! Then Moses answered and said; 4 ‘But they may not trust me, and not listen to my voice; for they may say, ‘ We have never seen your GOD, What

and he replied, 'I`hrow it on

So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ded from before it. But the Evan-1;1v1No said to

Stretch out your hand and So he stretched out his hand and seized it, and it Be certain they will believe because of that, that the Evan-Livmo GOD of their fathers appeared to you,-—the GOD of Abraham, the GOD of Isaac, And con- tinuing the EVER-LIVING said to him ; Put your hand now into your

so he put his hand into his bosom ; and when he drew it out his hand was leperous like snow! Replace your hand

so he replaced his hand in his bosom, and took it out 54