Exodus 4:10
Then Moses said to the LORD,“O my Lord, I am not an eloquent man, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
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- Jer 1:6 : 6 I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”
- Exod 6:12 : 12 But Moses replied to the LORD,“If the Israelites did not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with difficulty?”
- Acts 7:22 : 22 So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.
- Exod 4:1 : 1 The Source of Sufficiency Moses answered again,“And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say,‘The LORD has not appeared to you’?”
- 2 Cor 11:6 : 6 And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.
- Job 12:2 : 2 “Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
- 1 Cor 2:1-4 : 1 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God. 2 For I decided to be concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling. 4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
- 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 because some say,“His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak and his speech is of no account.”
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28 The Authentication of the Word When the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
29 he said to him,“I am the LORD. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you.”
30 But Moses said before the LORD,“Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”
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11 The LORD said to him,“Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
12 So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”
13 But Moses said,“O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!”
14 Then the LORD became angry with Moses, and he said,“What about your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak very well. Moreover, he is coming to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.
15 “So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you must do.
16 He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.
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6 I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”
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