Exodus 4:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High.

Exodus 18:19

Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee: be thou for the people to God-ward, and bring thou the causes unto God:

Exodus 4:12

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.

Exodus 4:30

and Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

Jeremiah 36:32

Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.