¹ Odpověděl pak Mojžíš, a řekl: Aj, neuvěří mi, ani uposlechnou hlasu mého; nebo řeknou: Neukázalť se tobě Hospodin.

² Tedy řekl jemu Hospodin: Co jest to v ruce tvé? Odpověděl: Hůl.

³ I řekl: Vrz ji na zem. I povrhl ji na zem, a obrácena jest v hada; a utíkal Mojžíš před ním.

⁴ Tedy řekl Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Vztáhni ruku svou, a chyť ho za ocas. Kterýžto vztáh ruku svou, chytil jej, a obrácen jest v hůl v rukou jeho.

⁵ Aby věřili, že se ukázal tobě Hospodin, Bůh otců jejich, Bůh Abrahamův, Bůh Izákův a Bůh Jákobův.

⁶ Potom zase řekl jemu Hospodin: Vlož nyní ruku svou za ňadra svá. I vložil ruku svou za ňadra svá; a vyňal ji, a aj, ruka jeho byla malomocná, bílá jako sníh.

⁷ Řekl opět: Vlož ruku svou zase v ňadra svá. Kterýž vložil ruku svou zase v ňadra svá; a vyňal ji z ňader svých, a aj, učiněna jest zase jako jiné tělo jeho.

⁸ I budeť, jestliže neuvěří tobě, a neposlechnou hlasu a znamení prvního, uvěří hlasu a znamení druhému.

⁹ A pakli neuvěří ani těm dvěma znamením, a neuposlechnou hlasu tvého, tedy nabereš vody z řeky, a vyliješ ji na zem; a promění se vody, kteréž vezmeš z řeky, a obrátí se v krev na zemi.

¹⁰ I řekl Mojžíš Hospodinu: Prosím, Pane, nejsem muž výmluvný, aniž prvé, ani jakž jsi mluvil s služebníkem svým; nebo zpozdilých úst a neohbitého jazyku jsem.

¹¹ Jemuž odpověděl Hospodin: Kdo dal ústa člověku? Aneb kdo může učiniti němého, neb hluchého, vidoucího, neb slepého? Zdali ne já Hospodin?

¹² Nyní tedy jdi, a já budu v ústech tvých, a naučím tě, co bys mluviti měl.

¹³ I řekl: Slyš mne, Pane, pošli, prosím, toho, kteréhož poslati máš.

¹⁴ A rozhněvav se velmi Hospodin na Mojžíše, řekl: Zdaliž nemáš Arona bratra svého z pokolení Léví? Vím, že on výmluvný jest; ano aj, sám vyjde v cestu tobě, a vida tebe, radovati se bude v srdci svém.

¹⁵ Ty mluviti budeš k němu, a vložíš slova v ústa jeho; a já budu v ústech tvých a v ústech jeho, a naučím vás, co byste měli činiti.

¹⁶ A on mluviti bude za tebe k lidu; a bude tobě on za ústa, a ty budeš jemu za Boha.

¹⁷ Hůl pak tuto vezmeš v ruku svou, kterouž činiti budeš ta znamení.

¹⁸ Tedy odšed Mojžíš, navrátil se k Jetrovi tchánu svému, a řekl jemu: Nechť jdu nyní, a navrátím se k bratřím svým, kteříž jsou v Egyptě, a pohledím, jsou-li ještě živi. I řekl Jetro Mojžíšovi: Jdi v pokoji.

¹⁹ Nebo řekl byl Hospodin Mojžíšovi v zemi Madianské: Jdi, navrať se do Egypta; nebo zemřeli jsou všickni muži, kteříž hledali bezživotí tvého.

²⁰ A vzav Mojžíš ženu svou, a syny své, vsadil je na osla, aby se navrátil do země Egyptské; vzal také Mojžíš hůl Boží v ruku svou.

²¹ I řekl Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Když půjdeš a navrátíš se do Egypta, hleď, abys všecky zázraky, kteréž jsem složil v ruce tvé, činil před Faraonem. Jáť pak zatvrdím srdce jeho, aby nepropustil lidu.

²² Protož díš Faraonovi: Toto praví Hospodin: Syn můj, prvorozený můj jest Izrael.

²³ I řekl jsem tobě: Propusť syna mého, ať slouží mi; a nechtěl jsi ho propustiti. Aj, já zabiji syna tvého, prvorozeného tvého.

²⁴ I stalo se, když byl Mojžíš na cestě v hospodě, že se obořil na něj Hospodin, a hledal ho usmrtiti.

²⁵ Tedy vzala Zefora nůž ostrý, a obřezala neobřízku syna svého, kteroužto vrhla k nohám jeho, řkuci: Zajisté ženich krví jsi mi.

²⁶ I nechal ho. Ona pak nazvala ho tehdáž ženichem krví pro obřezání.

²⁷ Řekl také Hospodin Aronovi: Jdi vstříc Mojžíšovi na poušť. I šel a potkal se s ním na hoře Boží, a políbil ho.

²⁸ A vypravoval Mojžíš Aronovi všecka slova Hospodinova, kterýž ho poslal, i o všech znameních, kteráž přikázal jemu.

²⁹ Tedy šel Mojžíš s Aronem, a shromáždili všecky starší synů Izraelských.

³⁰ I mluvil Aron všecka slova, kteráž byl mluvil Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, a činil znamení před očima lidu.

³¹ A uvěřil lid, když uslyšeli, že navštívil Hospodin syny Izraelské, a že viděl ssoužení jejich. A sklonivše se, poklonu učinili.

¹ The men of Ephraim said to him, "Why have you treated us this way, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian?" They rebuked him sharply.

² He said to them, "What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

³ God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?" Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

⁴ Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.

⁵ He said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."

⁶ The princes of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?"

⁷ Gideon said, "Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."

⁸ He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

⁹ He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower."

¹⁰ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.

¹¹ Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army was secure.

¹² Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.

¹³ Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.

¹⁴ He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.

¹⁵ He came to the men of Succoth, and said, "See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, 'Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?'"

¹⁶ He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

¹⁷ He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.

¹⁸ Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "They were like you. Each one resembled the children of a king."

¹⁹ He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you."

²⁰ He said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up, and kill them!" But the youth didn't draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.

²¹ Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

²² Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian."

²³ Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you."

²⁴ Gideon said to them, "I would make a request of you, that you would give me every man the earrings of his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

²⁵ They answered, "We will willingly give them." They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his spoil into it.

²⁶ The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.

²⁷ Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.

²⁸ So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

²⁹ Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.

³⁰ Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.

³¹ His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

³² Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

³³ It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.

³⁴ The children of Israel didn't remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;

³⁵ neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [who is] Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.