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Legacy Standard Bible

Exodus 4:12

So now, go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth and will instruct you what you shall speak."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Call;   Communion;   Condescension of God;   Excuses;   Faith;   Israel;   Minister, Christian;   Moses;   Preaching;   Prophets;   Wisdom;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Inspiration;   Prophets;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Missionary Work by Ministers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Sinai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Moses;   Prophecy, prophet;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Aaron;   Mouth;   Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Moses;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Inspiration;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses;   Mouth;   Revelation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Memra;   Miracle;  

Devotionals:

- Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for August 2;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
King James Version
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Lexham English Bible
So then go, and I myself will be with your mouth, and I will teach you what you must speak."
New Century Version
Now go! I will help you speak, and I will teach you what to say."
New English Translation
So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say."
Amplified Bible
"Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and will teach you what you shall say."
New American Standard Bible
"Now then go, and I Myself will be with your mouth, and instruct you in what you are to say."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore goe nowe, and I will be with thy mouth, and will teach thee what thou shalt say.
Contemporary English Version
Now go! When you speak, I will be with you and give you the words to say."
Complete Jewish Bible
Now, therefore, go; and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what to say."
Darby Translation
And now go, and I will be with thy mouth, and will teach thee what thou shalt say.
Easy-to-Read Version
So go. I will be with you when you speak. I will give you the words to say."
English Standard Version
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak."
George Lamsa Translation
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.
Good News Translation
Now, go! I will help you to speak, and I will tell you what to say."
Christian Standard Bible®
Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.”
Literal Translation
And now go, and I will be with your mouth, and will teach you what you shall speak.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Go now thy waye therfore, I wil be wt thy mouth, & teach the what thou shalt saye.
American Standard Version
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.
Bible in Basic English
So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And nowe go, and I wyll be with thy mouth, and teache thee what thou shalt say.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.'
King James Version (1611)
Now therefore goe, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now go and I will open thy mouth, and will instruct thee in what thou shalt say.
English Revised Version
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.
Berean Standard Bible
Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor go thou, and Y schal be in thi mouth, and Y schal teche thee what thou schalt speke.
Young's Literal Translation
and now, go, and I -- I am with thy mouth, and have directed thee that which thou speakest;'
Update Bible Version
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
World English Bible
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
New King James Version
Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say."
New Living Translation
Now go! I will be with you as you speak, and I will instruct you in what to say."
New Life Bible
So go now. And I will be with your mouth. I will teach you what to say."
New Revised Standard
Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore go, - and, I, will be with thy mouth, so will I direct thee, what thou shalt speak.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.
Revised Standard Version
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say."

Contextual Overview

10Then Moses said to Yahweh, "Please, Lord, I have never been a man of words, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your slave; for I am one with a hard mouth and a hard tongue." 11And Yahweh said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh? 12So now, go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth and will instruct you what you shall speak." 13But he said, "Please, Lord, send now the message by whomever You will." 14Then the anger of Yahweh burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can certainly speak. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you. And he will see you and be glad in his heart. 15And you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will instruct you in what you shall do. 16Moreover, he shall speak for you to the people; and he will become as a mouth for you, and you will become as God to him. 17And you shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 25:4, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 32:9, Psalms 143:10, Isaiah 49:2, Isaiah 50:4, Jeremiah 1:9, Matthew 10:19, Matthew 10:20, Mark 13:11, Luke 11:1, Luke 12:11, Luke 12:12, Luke 21:14, Luke 21:15, John 14:26, Ephesians 6:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:12 - Certainly Exodus 18:19 - God shall Joshua 24:5 - sent 2 Chronicles 17:3 - the Lord Psalms 105:26 - sent Proverbs 16:1 - and Isaiah 57:19 - the fruit Jeremiah 15:19 - as my Ezekiel 3:27 - I will Matthew 9:33 - the dumb Acts 2:4 - as Acts 6:10 - able Acts 9:15 - Go Acts 15:7 - by my Acts 18:10 - I am James 1:17 - good

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
So it happened in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh of the fruit of the ground.
Genesis 4:4
Abel, on his part, also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And Yahweh had regard for Abel and for his offering;
Genesis 4:14
Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and it will be that whoever finds me will kill me."
Genesis 4:17
Then Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son.
Genesis 4:18
Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
Genesis 4:23
And Lamech said to his wives,"Adah and Zillah,Hear my voice,You wives of Lamech,Give ear to my word,For I have killed a man for striking me;And a boy for wounding me;
Genesis 4:24
If Cain is avenged sevenfold,Then Lamech seventy‑sevenfold."
Leviticus 26:20
And your power will be spent uselessly, for your land will not give forth its produce and the trees of the land will not give forth their fruit.
Leviticus 26:36
As for those of you who may remain, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall.
Psalms 109:10
Let his sons wander aimlessly and beg;And let them search for food from their ruined homes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth,.... And put words into it, and cause it to speak readily and powerfully; and so it appears that he was mighty in words, as well as in deeds, Acts 7:22:

and teach thee what thou shalt say; to Pharaoh, to the Israelites, and to Aaron, that was to speak for him, as is hereafter observed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare with this our Lord’s promise to His Apostles; Matthew 10:19; Mark 13:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 4:12. I will be with thy mouth — The Chaldee translates, My WORD, meimeri, shall be with thy mouth. And Jonathan ben Uzziel paraphrases, I and my WORD will be with the speech of thy mouth. Genesis 15:1; Genesis 15:1, and "Leviticus 25:10".


 
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