하나님에게 죽을뻔한 모세를 위기에서 구한 아내 십보라(출애굽기 4장)

출애굽기 4장은 조금 아이러니합니다. 하나님이 나타나 지팡이를 뱀으로 만들고 피부도 나병환자처럼 만들었다 새살로 나게 하는 기적을 보여주며 모세더러 사람들을 설득하라고 하니 모세는 자기 말주변 없다고 징징거립니다. 그러자 하나님이 버럭 하면서 형 아론에게 시키라고 하고요. 애굽으로 돌아가는 중 느닷없이 하나님이 모세를 죽이려고 합니다. 과연 왜 그랬을까요?

 

 

 

 

 

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기적을 보여주는 로드

 

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내가 바로 나다 이집트를 떠날 준비를 해라(출애굽기 3장)

 

1. Then Moses answered, "But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, "The LORD did not appear to you.'"

2. The LORD said to him, "What is that your hand?" He said, "A staff."

3. And he said, "Throw it on the ground." and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it.

4. But the LORD said to Moses, "Put out your hand and catch it by the tail"- so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand-

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

6. Again, the LORD said to him, "Put your hand inside your cloak." And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

7. Then God said, "Put your hand back inside your cloak." So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.

8. "If they will not believe you." God said, "or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.

9. If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground."

 

 

 

 

모세는 사람들이 자기 말을 어찌 믿겠느냐며 의심을 지우지 않습니다. 그러자 로드가 모세한테 손에 든 게 뭐냐고 하니 모세가 지팡이라고 하자 로드가 지팡이를 던지니 그것이 뱀으로 변하였습니다. 그리고 꼬리를 잡으라고 하니 다시 지팡이가 되었고요. 그리고 입고 있는 망토 안에 손을 집어 넣다 빼라 하니 손에 나병이 생기고 다시 넣다 빼라 하니 나병이 다 나은 기적을 보여주셨습니다. 이런 기적조차 믿지 않으면 나일강에 물을 받아 부으면 마른땅에서 핏물이 될 거라고 합니다. 

 

 

말이 어눌하다는 모세

 

 

 

10. But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue."

11. Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, of deaf, or seeing, or blind? It is not I, the LORD?

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

13. But he said, " Oh, my Lord, please send someone else."

14. Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

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

16. He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him.

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

 

모세는 하나님께 말합니다. 하지만 자신은 말이 느리고 어눌하다고 합니다. 그러자 로드가 내가 너를 만들었는데 니가 말을 못 하는 게 말이 되냐? 나를 믿고 가라 하면 된다,라는 식으로 말한 것 같습니다. 모세는 그럼에도 겁이 나서 제발 다른 사람을 시키라고 하니 로드가 좀 화가 났겠죠? 로드가 말 잘하는 레위 사람 니 형 아론이 있지 않느냐. 아론은 좋아할 테니 그가 너의 입이 대신되어줄 거다, 그런 의미 같습니다. 

 

 

 

 

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

19. And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, " Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead."

20. So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

 

21. And the LORD said to Moses, " When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

 

 

모세는 장인을 비롯한 식구들의 생사 확인을 하고 싶다하니 로드가 너의 목숨을 노린 자는 다 없앴으니 가봐도 된다고 하십니다. 그래서 모세가 아내와 아들들을 나귀에 태우고 애굽으로 돌아가는데 로드가 자신이 너에게 보인 기적을 그들에게로 행하라고 합니다. 

 

 

할례로 살아남은 피남편

 

 

 

22. Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is my firstborn son,

23. and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me." If you refuse to let him go , behold, I will kill your firstborn son.'"

 

24. At a longing place on the way the LORD met him and sought to put him to death.

25. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"

26. So he let him alone. It was then that she said, "A bridegroom of blood, " because of the circumcision.

 

 

 

 

27. The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

28. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. 

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

30. Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people.

31. And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.

 

출애굽기 4장 22절부터는 당췌 무슨 말인지 이해가 되질 않네요. 한글 성경을 읽어도 뭔 말인지 이해가 안 가요. 아무튼간에, 하나님의 명에 따라 애굽으로 가려는데 로드가 나타나 모세를 죽이려고 했답니다. 너무 황당하고 뜬금없는 행동 아닌가요? 그러자 아내 십보라가 나타나 아들에게 할례를 즉시 하여서 모세가 살아났다고 합니다.

 

로드가 모세를 죽이려고 한 이유가 아들에게 미처 할례를 하지 않았기 때문이라고 하는데요. 로드는 상당히 원칙주의자인가 봐요. 피도 눈물도 없이 약속을 지키지 않으면 가차없이 처단하나 봅니다. 아무튼 아내 십보라 덕에 모세는 살았다고 합니다. 십보라는 완전 센스쟁이네요. 그 순간에 그걸 어찌 알았을까요.

 

순간적으로 든 생각은 처음에 모세가 이런저런 핑계대고 말 못 한다고 하여 하나님이 화나서 저 징징이 죽이고 그냥 아론한테 몽땅 맡겨버릴까 하는 억하심정이 발동한 거 아닐까요? 모세가 좀 눈치가 없는 유형처럼 느껴져서요.