Verse 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?”

Referenced Verses

  • 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!