Exodus 4:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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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  • Exod 7:1-2 : 1 So the LORD said to Moses,“See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. 2 You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.
  • Exod 18:19 : 19 Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;
  • Ps 82:6 : 6 I thought,‘You are gods; all of you are sons of the Most High.’
  • John 10:34-35 : 34 Jesus answered,“Is it not written in your law,‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If those people to whom the word of God came were called‘gods’(and the scripture cannot be broken),

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  • Exod 4:10-15
    6 verses
    89%

    10Then 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.”

    11The 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?

    12So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”

    13But Moses said,“O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!”

    14Then 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.

  • Exod 4:17
    76%

    17You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”

  • Exod 7:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1So the LORD said to Moses,“See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

    2You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.

  • Deut 18:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17The LORD then said to me,“What they have said is good.

    18I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

  • Num 12:8
    73%

    8With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

  • Exod 18:19-20
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    73%

    19Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;

    20warn them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

  • Deut 18:15
    72%

    15The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you– from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.

  • Num 11:17
    71%

    17Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the Spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it all by yourself.

  • Exod 19:6
    71%

    6and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”

  • Exod 3:12
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    12He replied,“Surely I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve God at this mountain.”

  • Isa 51:16
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    16Zion’s Time to Celebrate I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion,‘You are my people.’”

  • Num 27:20
    69%

    20Then you must delegate some of your authority to him, so that the whole community of the Israelites will be obedient.

  • Jer 1:9
    69%

    9Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me,“I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.

  • Ezek 3:26
    68%

    26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.

  • Acts 3:22
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    22Moses said,‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey him in everything he tells you.

  • Num 27:15-18
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    15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

    16“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the community,

    17who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that the community of the LORD may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”

    18The LORD replied to Moses,“Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;

  • Isa 28:11
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    11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

  • Exod 33:11
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    11The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.

  • Exod 6:29-30
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    68%

    29he said to him,“I am the LORD. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you.”

    30But Moses said before the LORD,“Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

  • Num 3:11
    68%

    11Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Jer 30:22
    68%

    22Then you will again be my people and I will be your God.

  • Lev 17:1
    68%

    1The Slaughter of Animals The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Ezek 24:27
    68%

    27On that day you will be able to speak again; you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

  • Acts 7:37
    67%

    37This is the Moses who said to the Israelites,‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

  • Lev 18:1
    67%

    1Exhortation to Obedience and Life The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 4:2
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    2The LORD said to him,“What is that in your hand?” He said,“A staff.”

  • Lev 24:13
    67%

    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 12:6
    67%

    6The LORD said,“Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.

  • Num 16:44
    67%

    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Isa 55:4
    67%

    4Look, I made him a witness to nations, a ruler and commander of nations.”

  • Judg 6:16
    67%

    16The LORD said to him,“Ah, but I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.”

  • Deut 26:19
    67%

    19Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.

  • 1 Sam 10:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you and you will prophesy with them. You will be changed into a different person.

    7“When these signs have taken place, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God will be with you.

  • Num 14:26
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    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 15:17
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    17Rules for First Fruits The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Jer 1:7
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    7The LORD said to me,“Do not say,‘I am too young.’ But go to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.

  • Deut 5:31
    67%

    31But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.”