Exodus 4:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ He indeed shall speak for you to the people; he shall serve as a mouth for you, and you shall serve as God for him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ He shall speak for you to the people, acting as a mouthpiece for you, and you shall be as God to him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as God.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Aaron will speak for you to the people. He’ll be a spokesperson for you, and you will be like God for him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ He will speak for you to the people, and he will be your mouth. But you will be with him in those things that pertain to God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.

Exodus 4:16 Cross References

Psalm 82:6

I say, “You are gods, children of the Most High, all of you;

Exodus 18:19

Now listen to me. I will give you counsel, and God be with you! You should represent the people before God and bring their cases to God.

Exodus 4:12

Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak.”

Exodus 4:30

Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and performed the signs in the sight of the people.

Jeremiah 36:32

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the secretary Baruch son of Neriah, who wrote on it at Jeremiah’s dictation all the words of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned in the fire, and many similar words were added to them.