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10 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 11 Go, tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to let the Israelites leave his land. 12 However, Moses protested to the Lord, “If the Israelites did not listen to me, how is it possible that Pharaoh will listen to me, poor speaker[a](A) that I am!”

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  1. 6:12 Poor speaker: lit., “uncircumcised of lips”: a metaphor expressing the hindrance of good communication expressed as “slow of speech and tongue” (4:10). Also used as a metaphor for impeded “heart” (Lv 26:41; Dt 10:16).

10 Then the Lord said to Moses, 11 “Go, tell(A) Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.”(B)

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

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Footnotes

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

10 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

12 And Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?

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