H9002–/וְ–v

And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by the tail: (and he put out his hand and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his hand:)

וֶאֱחֹ֖ז (וֶ) ve. “and”

So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by you.

וֵאלֹהֵ֥י (וֵ) ve. “and”

Then the Lord said to him again, Put your hand inside your clothing. And he put his hand inside his robe: and when he took it out it was like the hand of a leper, as white as snow.

וְהִנֵּ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And he said, Put your hand inside your robe again. (And he put his hand into his robe again, and when he took it out he saw that it had become like his other flesh.)

וְהִנֵּה־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And if they do not have faith in you or give ear to the voice of the first sign, they will have faith in the second sign.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

And if they have no faith even in these two signs and will not give ear to your voice, then you are to take the water of the Nile and put it on the dry land: and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.

וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.

וּכְבַ֥ד (וּ) u. “and”

So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.

וְעַתָּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְאָנֹכִי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

וְגַ֤ם (וְ) ve. “and”

Let him give ear to your voice, and you will put my words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his, teaching you what you have to do.

וְאָנֹכִ֗י (וְ) ve. “and”וְעִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And he will do the talking for you to the people: he will be to you as a mouth and you will be to him as God.

וְאַתָּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And take in your hand this rod with which you will do the signs.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

וְאָשׁ֙וּבָה֙ (וְ) ve. “so”וְאֶרְאֶ֖ה (וְ) ve. “so”

And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go.

וַאֲנִי֙ (וַ) va. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.

וְיַֽעַבְדֵ֔נִי (וְ) ve. “so”

And Moses gave Aaron an account of all the words of the Lord which he had sent him to say, and of all the signs which he had given him orders to do.

וְאֵ֥ת (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:

וְאַהֲרֹ֑ן (וְ) ve. “and”

And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.

וְכִ֤י (וְ) ve. “and”

And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Let my people go so that they may keep a feast to me in the waste land.

וְאַחַ֗ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַהֲרֹ֔ן (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָחֹ֥גּוּ (וְ) ve. “so”

And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.

וְגַ֥ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

וְנִזְבְּחָה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.

וְאַהֲרֹ֔ן (וְ) ve. “and”

The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying,

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.

וְקֹשְׁשׁ֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”