參考版本 AFV  A  Faithful Version 的希臘文 2009版本   

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1. And the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants so that I might show these My signs before him,

2. And so that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your son’s sons, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them, so that you may know that I am the LORD.”

3. And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go so that they may serve Me;

4. For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring the locusts into your country.

5. And they shall cover the face of the ground so that one cannot be able to see the earth. And they shall eat the rest of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

6. And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither your fathers, nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day they were upon the earth until this day.’ ” And he turned himself and went out from Pharaoh.

7. And Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go so that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

8. And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go! Serve the LORD your God. Who are the ones that shall go?”

9. And Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters. We will go with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”

10. And he said to them, “Let the LORD be with you, for if I ever let you go with your little ones, watch out, for you have some evil purpose in mind.

11. Not so! Go now you men and serve the LORD, for it is you who did desire it.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

12. And the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left.”

13. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all the night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

14. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the country of Egypt, very numerous and dense. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such;

15. For they covered the face of the whole ground so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. And there did not remain any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

16. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste. And he said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.

17. Now therefore, I beg you, forgive my sin only this once, and pray to the LORD your God that He may take away from me this death only.”

18. And he went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD.

19. And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts and threw them into the Red Sea. There did not remain one locust in all the boundaries of Egypt.

20. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.

 (A Faithful Version)

1. 大能者對摩西說：去見法老，我的作為，讓法老心中不服，是時候將奇事，直接在他眼前展示出來。

2. 好讓以色列眾人知曉這奇事的發生，也讓將來這一代人的子孫明白，我在埃及所行的奇事，就明白是位大能者幫助他們。

3. 摩西和亞倫領召到法老面前，說：那希伯來的大能者如此說，你何時才學會放下自己的專橫，容我的子民離開，去曠野獻祭？

4. 若堅持不願意容我的子民離去，明天起，有大群蝗蟲飛到你的領地。

5. 蝗蟲數量足以覆蓋整個埃及地，看不見有地面，也把由冰雹剩下的殘餘的農作物，就是田間一切所有的出產盡都消化掉。

6. 不單如此，蝗蟲也進到房屋，你臣僕的，以及埃及人的。是他們出生以來從未見過。即使是你的先祖和之前代代的列祖，都未曾見過。宣示完畢，摩西和亞倫轉身離去。

7. 法老眾臣僕對法老說：這麻煩是因他們而來。還是放走吧，讓他們去事奉他們的大能神。否則埃及頻臨絕境，你似乎仍未覺醒？

8. 及後。摩西和亞倫被召回去見法老。法老說：你們走吧，去事奉你的大能者。有那些人跟你離去？

9. 摩西回應：會帶離開的人計有：由少到老，並他們的兒女，也會帶家裡的禽畜一起去，為的是作為向大能者守節之用。

10. 法老回應：就依照大能者說的，男人可以離去，留下孩子，以防有什麼鬼計。

11. 只容男人可以去，這是你的要求。話畢，法老就把摩西和亞倫趕走。

12. 此事過後，大能者對摩西說：你把手伸向埃及，止住冰雹，讓蝗蟲飛來，把殘留的植物，吃個乾乾淨淨。

13. 摩西聽令，向埃及伸出手杖，大能者讓東風刮起，吹向整遍大陸，須是早晨，卻黑得像夜間。

14. 蝗蟲遍滿埃及全地，數量極為眾多，極為密集。這景象以前沒有，以後也沒有。

15. 當蝗蟲滿佈大地，地面上成了漆黑一片。牠們吃盡了地面上一切的植物，冰雹剩下的各類果樹和農產。埃及全地所有的農作物，凡是綠色的都沒有留下。

16. 法老見此，急忙召見摩西和亞倫，說：我得罪了大能者，也得罪了你們。

17. 求你，向你的大能者求告，饒恕我這次犯的大錯，只此一次，不會再有下次。

18. 摩西就離開法老，向大能者懇求。

19. 大能者就刮起猛烈的西風，把蝗蟲吹進紅海，至使埃及境內一隻不留。

20. 大能者曉得，法老依舊心中不服，沒有意思讓以色列人離開。

按記述，大能者依舊有耐心，讓橫梗的人心，仍有改變的可能，祂是在示範什麼是對人犯錯時，那份七十個七次是如何展現。大能者有無限的耐性，人不能，為什麼？因為人能力有限，那又如何，人，仍在犯，大能者卻因為愛，不單是對這個法老，給予一次又一次機會，程度由淺到深，也以此對世界上每一個人。人願不願回轉，是這個人的自由，法老不改，仍有人會改，就像他身邊臣僕。

因此這古老的故事，讓不願改過的人一個提示，人可以犯錯不改，他有這自由。只是，結局如何，就不是大能者的安排，是自找。

大能者用黑暗作為對人的提示，是極具深意的一個舉動。一般在解釋黑暗一面，採取的角度是消極不好的一面。黑暗是有它積極的一面。

AI:

黑暗帶來顯著的生物、心理和精神益處 在光飽和的現代世界中, 這一點常常被忽略。從科學角度來看, 接觸真正的黑暗對於重置晝夜節律、促進褪黑激素的產生和促進深度睡眠至關重要, 深度睡眠可以鞏固記憶並調節情緒。

神經學和心理學, 黑暗觸發感覺重新分佈和神經可塑性。它允許大腦的「內在視覺」被激活, 透過減少外部感官輸入來培養創造力、內省和思維清晰度。漂浮療法和黑暗靜修等實踐利用這種狀態來降低皮質醇、緩解焦慮並增強情緒調節。

精神和文化上, 黑暗被視為一個擁有無限生育力、隱私和保護的空間。它是未顯現的潛力和個人轉變的沃土, 可以平衡日光的曝光和性能要求。擁抱自然的黑暗也可以增強與自然和宇宙的連結感, 促進敬畏和洞察力。

https://egyptianmuseum.org/deities-ra

太陽神- 拉 這是神話。有引用在此段作為比較，它沒有正確的基礎述說，是虛談，也不必引用，知道有此說就是。

https://stevebarto1559.wordpress.com/2019/07/24/a-plague-of-darkness/

黑暗的三天：當法老拒絕釋放希伯來人時, 籠罩在埃及的黑暗並不是 只是 黑暗。相反, 這是一個 普遍存在的物理和形而上學的黑暗   如此偉大和全面, 以至於埃及人甚至無法安全地穿過他們的房屋而沒有危險。令人驚訝的是, 與這種黑暗相反的是耶和華的神奇之光, 在這場瘟疫期間, 它照耀著每個猶太家庭的家。上帝並不是簡單地透過十災來取悅自己。相反, 它展示了上帝榮耀正義的完整和普遍表現的累積效應—這是上帝對完全和持續的不服從進行懲罰的字面例子。

對上述的觀點基本上認同，只是結論不是去懲罰，而是讓法老有反思的機會。

在黑暗中，人是無助，什麼都做不到，這種無助感讓人曉得人力有限。為什麼這是大能者的用意？因為降災，大能者從不會用懲罰方式去改變人的行為。這是釋經裡面一個很嚴重錯誤的引導，它是世俗化的翻譯，離開耶和華是愛，以為警誡等如懲罰，這觀念離大能者以愛相扶的心思很遠。

這果演譯的論點你能接受，就多點分享，不單讓你更明白耶和華的心意，也讓你的朋友，在信仰的精神和原則可以更新，活得更加自由自在。