¹ Lorsque tu seras entré dans le pays que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te donne pour héritage, lorsque tu le posséderas et y seras établi,

² tu prendras des prémices de tous les fruits que tu retireras du sol dans le pays que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te donne, tu les mettras dans une corbeille, et tu iras au lieu que choisira l'Eternel, ton Dieu, pour y faire résider son nom.

³ Tu te présenteras au sacrificateur alors en fonctions, et tu lui diras: Je déclare aujourd'hui à l'Eternel, ton Dieu, que je suis entré dans le pays que l'Eternel a juré à nos pères de nous donner.

⁴ Le sacrificateur recevra la corbeille de ta main, et la déposera devant l'autel de l'Eternel, ton Dieu.

⁵ Tu prendras encore la parole, et tu diras devant l'Eternel, ton Dieu: Mon père était un Araméen nomade; il descendit en Egypte avec peu de gens, et il y fixa son séjour; là, il devint une nation grande, puissante et nombreuse.

⁶ Les Egyptiens nous maltraitèrent et nous opprimèrent, et ils nous soumirent à une dure servitude.

⁷ Nous criâmes à l'Eternel, le Dieu de nos pères. l'Eternel entendit notre voix, et il vit notre oppression, nos peines et nos misères.

⁸ Et l'Eternel nous fit sortir d'Egypte, à main forte et à bras étendu, avec des prodiges de terreur, avec des signes et des miracles.

⁹ Il nous a conduits dans ce lieu, et il nous a donné ce pays, pays où coulent le lait et le miel.

¹⁰ Maintenant voici, j'apporte les prémices des fruits du sol que tu m'as donné, ô Eternel! Tu les déposeras devant l'Eternel, ton Dieu, et tu te prosterneras devant l'Eternel, ton Dieu.

¹¹ Puis tu te réjouiras, avec le Lévite et avec l'étranger qui sera au milieu de toi, pour tous les biens que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, t'a donnés, à toi et à ta maison.

¹² Lorsque tu auras achevé de lever toute la dîme de tes produits, la troisième année, l'année de la dîme, tu la donneras au Lévite, à l'étranger, à l'orphelin et à la veuve; et ils mangeront et se rassasieront, dans tes portes.

¹³ Tu diras devant l'Eternel, ton Dieu: J'ai ôté de ma maison ce qui est consacré, et je l'ai donné au Lévite, à l'étranger, à l'orphelin et à la veuve, selon tous les ordres que tu m'as prescrits; je n'ai transgressé ni oublié aucun de tes commandements.

¹⁴ Je n'ai rien mangé de ces choses pendant mon deuil, je n'en ai rien fait disparaître pour un usage impur, et je n'en ai rien donné à l'occasion d'un mort; j'ai obéi à la voix de l'Eternel, mon Dieu, j'ai agi selon tous les ordres que tu m'as prescrits.

¹⁵ Regarde de ta demeure sainte, des cieux, et bénis ton peuple d'Israël et le pays que tu nous as donné, comme tu l'avais juré à nos pères, ce pays où coulent le lait et le miel.

¹⁶ Aujourd'hui, l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te commande de mettre en pratique ces lois et ces ordonnances; tu les observeras et tu les mettras en pratique de tout ton coeur et de toute ton âme.

¹⁷ Aujourd'hui, tu as fait promettre à l'Eternel qu'il sera ton Dieu, afin que tu marches dans ses voies, que tu observes ses lois, ses commandements et ses ordonnances, et que tu obéisses à sa voix.

¹⁸ Et aujourd'hui, l'Eternel t'a fait promettre que tu seras un peuple qui lui appartiendra, comme il te l'a dit, et que tu observeras tous ses commandements,

¹⁹ afin qu'il te donne sur toutes les nations qu'il a créées la supériorité en gloire, en renom et en magnificence, et afin que tu sois un peuple saint pour l'Eternel, ton Dieu, comme il te l'a dit.

¹ Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"

² Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."

³ He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

⁴ Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He Put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

⁵ "That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."

⁶ Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

⁷ He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He Put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

⁸ "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

⁹ It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."

¹⁰ Moses said to Yahweh, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."

¹¹ Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?

¹² Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."

¹³ He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."

¹⁴ The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

¹⁵ You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

¹⁶ He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

¹⁷ You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

¹⁸ Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "go in peace."

¹⁹ Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

²⁰ Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.

²¹ Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

²² You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

²³ and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

²⁴ It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

²⁵ Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

²⁶ So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

²⁷ Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.

²⁸ Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

²⁹ Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

³⁰ Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

³¹ The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.