¹ Beše jedan čovek iz Ramatajim-Sofima, iz gore Jefremove, kome ime beše Elkana sin Jeroama, sina Eliva, sina Tova, sina Sufovog, Efraćanin.

² I imaše dve žene, jednoj beše ime Ana a drugoj Fenina; i Fenina imaše dece, a Ana nemaše dece.

³ I iđaše taj čovek svake godine iz svog grada da se pokloni i prinese žrtvu Gospodu nad vojskama u Silom; a onde behu dva sina Ilijeva, Ofnije i Fines, sveštenici Gospodnji.

⁴ I jedan dan kad Elkana prinese žrtvu, dade Fenini ženi svojoj i svim sinovima njenim i kćerima njenim po deo;

⁵ Ani pak dade dva dela, jer ljubljaše Anu, a njoj Gospod beše zatvorio matericu.

⁶ I protivnica je njena vrlo cveljaše prkoseći joj što joj Gospod beše zatvorio matericu.

⁷ Tako činjaše Elkana svake godine, i Ana hođaše u dom Gospodnji, a ona je cveljaše, te plakaše i ne jeđaše.

⁸ A Elkana muž njen reče joj jednom: Ana, zašto plačeš? I zašto ne jedeš? I zašto je srce tvoje neveselo? Nisam li ti ja bolji nego deset sinova?

⁹ A Ana usta, pošto jedoše i piše u Silomu; a Ilije sveštenik seđaše na stolici, na pragu doma Gospodnjeg.

¹⁰ I ona, tužna u srcu pomoli se Gospodu plačući mnogo.

¹¹ I zavetova se govoreći: Gospode nad vojskama! Ako pogledaš na muku sluškinje svoje, i opomeneš me se, i ne zaboraviš sluškinje svoje, nego daš sluškinji svojoj muško čedo, ja ću ga dati Gospodu dokle je god živ, i britva neće preći preko glave njegove.

¹² I kad se ona dugo moljaše pred Gospodom, Ilije motraše na usta njena.

¹³ Ali Ana govoraše u srcu svom, usta joj se samo micahu a glas joj se ne čujaše; stoga Ilije pomisli da je pijana.

¹⁴ Pa joj reče Ilije: Dokle ćeš biti pijana? Otrezni se od vina svog.

¹⁵ Ali Ana odgovori i reče: Nisam pijana, gospodaru, nego sam žena tužna u srcu; nisam pila vina ni silovitog pića; nego izlivam dušu svoju pred Gospodom.

¹⁶ Nemoj jednačiti sluškinje svoje s nevaljalom ženom; jer sam od velike tuge i žalosti svoje govorila dosad.

¹⁷ Tada odgovori Ilije i reče: Idi s mirom; a Bog Izrailjev da ti ispuni molbu, za šta si Ga molila.

¹⁸ A ona reče: Neka nađe sluškinja tvoja milost pred tobom! Tada otide žena svojim putem, i jede, i lice joj ne beše više kao pre.

¹⁹ I sutradan uraniše, i pokloniše se Gospodu, i vratiše se i dođoše kući svojoj u Ramat. I Elkana pozna Anu ženu svoju, i Gospod se opomenu nje.

²⁰ I kad bi vreme, pošto Ana zatrudne, rodi sina i nade mu ime Samuilo, jer, reče, isprosih ga u Gospoda.

²¹ Potom pođe onaj čovek Elkana sa svim domom svojim da prinese Gospodu godišnju žrtvu i zavet svoj.

²² Ali Ana ne pođe, jer reče mužu svom: Dokle odojim dete, onda ću ga odvesti da izađe pred Gospoda i ostane onde do veka.

²³ I reče joj Elkana, muž njen: Čini kako ti drago; ostani dokle god ne odojiš; samo da hoće Gospod ispuniti reč svoju. I tako žena osta; i dojaše sina svog dokle ga ne odoji.

²⁴ A kad ga odoji, odvede ga sa sobom uzevši tri teleta i efu brašna i meh vina, i uvede ga u dom Gospodnji u Silomu; a dete beše još malo.

²⁵ I zaklaše tele i dovedoše dete k Iliju.

²⁶ I ona reče: Čuj gospodaru, kako je živa duša tvoja, gospodaru, ja sam ona žena koja je stajala ovde kod tebe moleći se Gospodu.

²⁷ Molih se za ovo dete, i ispuni mi Gospod molbu moju, za šta sam Ga molila.

²⁸ Zato i ja dajem njega Gospodu, dokle je god živ, da je dat Gospodu. I pokloniše se onde Gospodu.

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.