diff --git a/02-EXO/04.usfm b/02-EXO/04.usfm index d9c14b65..c7524d7f 100644 --- a/02-EXO/04.usfm +++ b/02-EXO/04.usfm @@ -1,10 +1,8 @@ - \s5 \c 4 - \p -\v 1 Moses said to God, "What should I do if they do not believe what I tell them? What should I do if they say, 'Yahweh did not appear to you'?" +\v 1 Moses said to God, "What should I do if they do not believe me or listen to me? What should I do if they say, 'Yahweh did not appear to you'?" \v 2 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" Moses answered, "A staff." \v 3 Yahweh said, "Throw it down on the ground!" So, Moses threw the staff on the ground and it became a snake, and Moses ran away from it. @@ -19,8 +17,8 @@ \v 7 Then Yahweh said, "Put your hand in your robe again." Moses put his hand back inside his robe. This time when he brought it out, the disease was healed, and it looked like his other hand. \s5 -\v 8 Yahweh said, "You can do that in front of the Israelite people, too. If they do not believe what you say after seeing the first miracle, they will believe you when you perform the second miracle. -\v 9 But if they do not believe you or do what you say even after you show them these two miracles, get some water from the Nile River and pour it on the dry ground. When you do that, the water that you pour on the dry ground will become blood." +\v 8 Yahweh said, "You can do that in front of the Israelite people, too. If they do not believe you or listen to you after seeing the first miracle, they will believe you when you perform the second miracle. +\v 9 But if they do not believe you or listen to what you say even after you show them these two miracles, get some water from the Nile River and pour it on the dry ground. When you do that, the water that you pour on the dry ground will become blood." \s5 \p @@ -36,7 +34,6 @@ \v 16 He will speak for you to the Israelite people. He will be your spokesman, and he will think of you as if you were me. \v 17 Be sure to take with you the staff that is in your hand because you will perform miracles with it." - \s5 \p \v 18 Moses went back to his father-in-law, Jethro, and said to him, "Let me go back to my people in Egypt to see if they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go, and may God give you peace." @@ -50,14 +47,12 @@ \v 22 Then say to him, 'This is what Yahweh says: Israel is like my first born son, \v 23 and I say to you, "Let my son go, so that he may worship me." But you did not let my son go and because of this, I will kill your firstborn son!'" - \s5 \p \v 24 One night, as they were on the way to Egypt, Yahweh appeared to Moses in order to kill him. \v 25 Then Moses' wife, Zipporah, took a knife and cut off the foreskin of their firstborn son. Then she touched the foreskin to Moses' feet and said, "You are a bridegroom of blood to me." \v 26 Yahweh did not kill Moses. Zipporah said, "You are a bridegroom of blood to me" because of the circumcision. - \s5 \p \v 27 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the desert to meet Moses." So Aaron went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him on the cheek. @@ -68,6 +63,3 @@ \v 29 So Aaron and Moses went and gathered together all of the elders of the Israelites. \v 30 Aaron told them everything that Yahweh had told Moses, and Moses performed all the miracles as the people watched. \v 31 The Israelites believed Aaron and Moses. When they heard that Yahweh had seen how the Israelite people were being badly treated and that he was going to help them, they bowed down and worshiped him. - - -