Exodus 4

Exodus 4 read aloud, in a fresh direct translation from the Hebrew — plain modern English, nothing added. Translator's notes: • Exodus 4:6 — מְצֹרַעַת (metzora'at): chose "diseased". Alternatives: "leprous", "scaly", "afflicted with a skin disease". Why: the Hebrew condition covers a range of serious skin afflictions and is not the modern disease called leprosy, so the rendering stays general. • Exodus 4:25 — חֲתַן־דָּמִים (chatan damim): chose "a bridegroom of blood". Alternatives: "a bridegroom by blood", "a husband of bloodshed". Why: the phrase occurs only here and its exact sense — what the blood makes Moses to Zipporah — is genuinely unclear, so the words are kept close to the Hebrew.