Exodus 4:10 - Tree of Life Version But Moses said to Adonai, “Adonai, I am not a man of words—not yesterday, nor the day before, nor since You have spoken to Your servant—because I have a slow mouth and a heavy tongue.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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. American Standard Version (1901) And Moses said unto Jehovah, Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. Common English Bible But Moses said to the LORD, “My Lord, I’ve never been able to speak well, not yesterday, not the day before, and certainly not now since you’ve been talking to your servant. I have a slow mouth and a thick tongue.” Catholic Public Domain Version Moses said: "I beg you, O Lord, I was not eloquent yesterday or the day before. And from the time that you have spoken to your servant, I have a greater impediment and slowness of tongue." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue. |
But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring Bnei-Yisrael out of Egypt?”
Then Moses said, “But look, they will not believe me or listen to my voice. They will say, ‘Adonai has not appeared to you.’”
But Moses said to Adonai, “Bnei-Yisrael have not listened to me. So how would Pharaoh listen to me—I, who have uncircumcised lips?”
But Moses said to Adonai, “I am of uncircumcised lips, so how would Pharaoh listen to me?”
Then I said, “Alas, Adonai Elohim! Look, I don’t know how to speak! For I’m still a boy!”
When I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in his words and deeds.
for they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his presence in person is weak and his speech of no account.”
Even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. No, in every way we have made this clear to you in all things.