Читать книгу The Exodus. Scientific line-by-line explanation of the Bible - Andrey Tikhomirov - Страница 12

1 And the LORD said to Moses, «Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants to show these signs of mine among them (Signs are needed to confirm faith and attract new adherents).

2 And that you may tell your son and your son’s son about what I have done in Egypt, and about my signs that I have shown in it, and that you may know that I am the LORD. (This is how religion is formed).

3 Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him: Thus saith the Lord, the God of the Jews: How long will you not humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve Me; (Again with Pharaoh).

4 and if you do not let my people go, then, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts to your region: (The threat of locusts, so it has already appeared somewhere nearby).

5 it will cover the face of the earth so that it will be impossible to see the earth, and it will eat what is left of you that has survived the hail; it will also eat all the trees growing in your field (Locusts, like herd insects, destroy all vegetation).

6 And he will fill your houses, the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which your fathers and your fathers’ fathers have not seen since the day they lived on the earth, even to this day. [Moses] turned and went out from Pharaoh. (Now we will fight locusts).

7 Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, «How long will he torment us?» Let these people go, let them serve the Lord their God; don’t you see yet that Egypt is dying? (In Egypt, apparently, the situation was getting worse).

8 And they brought Moses and Aaron back to Pharaoh, and [Pharaoh] said to them, Go, do the service of the LORD your God; who then and who will go? (Again, it seems to let go).

9 And Moses said, Let us go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and with our oxen, for we have a feast to the LORD. (Let’s go with the whole camp).