Add parallel Print Page Options

10 And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not eloquent or a man of words, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and have a heavy and awkward tongue.

Read full chapter

10 Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”(A)

Read full chapter

12 But Moses said to the Lord, Behold, [my own people] the Israelites have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh give heed to me, who am of deficient and impeded speech?

Read full chapter

12 But Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites will not listen(A) to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips[a]?”(B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 6:12 Hebrew I am uncircumcised of lips; also in verse 30

30 But Moses said to the Lord, Behold, I am of deficient and impeded speech; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me?

Read full chapter

30 But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I speak with faltering lips,(A) why would Pharaoh listen to me?”

Read full chapter

Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king instead of David my father, and I am [a]but a lad [in wisdom and experience]; I know not how to go out (begin) or come in (finish).

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 3:7 Solomon was already a father (see I Kings 11:42; 14:21).

“Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child(A) and do not know how to carry out my duties.

Read full chapter