Exodus 6:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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?”

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  • Exod 4:10 : 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.”
  • Exod 6:30 : 30 But Moses said before the LORD,“Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”
  • 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.”
  • Jer 6:10 : 10 I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.
  • Exod 6:9 : 9 Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.
  • Exod 3:13 : 13 Moses said to God,“If I go to the Israelites and tell them,‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me,‘What is his name?’– what should I say to them?”
  • Exod 4:29-31 : 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders. 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. When they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.
  • Exod 5:19-21 : 19 The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.” 20 When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them, 21 and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”
  • Lev 26:41 : 41 (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,
  • Deut 30:6 : 6 The LORD your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Jer 9:26 : 26 That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the LORD’s sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts.”
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

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  • Exod 6:27-30
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    27They were the men who were speaking to Pharaoh king of Egypt, in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. It was the same Moses and Aaron.

    28The Authentication of the Word When the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

    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?”

  • Exod 6:9-11
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    9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

    11“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”

  • Exod 6:13
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    13The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 4:10-12
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    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.”

  • Exod 4:1
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    1The 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’?”

  • Exod 3:10-11
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    10So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

    11Moses said to God,“Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

  • Jer 6:10
    73%

    10I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

  • Num 14:13
    72%

    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Num 12:8
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    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?”

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

  • Exod 5:22-23
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    22The Assurance of Deliverance Moses returned to the LORD, and said,“Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

    23From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!”

  • Exod 6:2
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    2God spoke to Moses and said to him,“I am the LORD.

  • Lev 6:1
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    1Trespass by Deception and False Oath(5:20) Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Jer 1:6
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    6I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”

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

  • Exod 14:1
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    1The Victory at the Red Sea The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 18:1
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    1Exhortation to Obedience and Life The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 1 Sam 6:6
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    6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?

  • Num 11:11
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    11And Moses said to the LORD,“Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

  • Num 6:22
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    22The Priestly Benediction The LORD spoke to Moses:

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    12But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted to Moses.

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    23And the LORD said to Moses,“Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you will see whether my word to you will come true or not!”

  • Num 12:2
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    2They said,“Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard it.

  • Exod 10:3
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    3So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him,“This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!

  • Exod 14:15
    69%

    15The LORD said to Moses,“Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

  • Jer 9:26
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    26That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the LORD’s sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts.”

  • Exod 7:16
    69%

    16Tell him,‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say,“Release my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness!” But until now you have not listened.

  • Exod 16:11
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    11and the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 24:13
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    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 6:1
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    1The Nazirite Vow Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 12:1
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    1The Institution of the Passover The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

  • Exod 11:9
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    9The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

  • Exod 33:12
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    12Moses said to the LORD,“See, you have been saying to me,‘Bring this people up,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said,‘I know you by name, and also you have found favor in my sight.’

  • Exod 8:20
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    20The Fourth Blow: Flies The LORD said to Moses,“Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him,‘This is what the LORD has said,“Release my people that they may serve me!

  • Exod 10:1
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    1The Eighth Blow: Locusts The LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him,

  • Exod 4:15
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    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 7:2
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    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.

  • Exod 34:34
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    34But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded.