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Revised Standard Version

Exodus 4:12

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach 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.
Legacy Standard Bible
So now, go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth and will instruct you what you shall speak."
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.
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

10 But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either heretofore or since thou hast spoken to thy servant; but I am slow of speech and of tongue." 11 Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak." 13 But he said, "Oh, my Lord, send, I pray, some other person." 14 Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well; and behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart. 15 And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. 16 He shall speak for you to the people; and he shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God. 17 And you shall take in your hand this rod, 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
In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground,
Genesis 4:4
and Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me."
Genesis 4:17
Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
Genesis 4:18
To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad was the father of Me-hu'ja-el, and Me-hu'ja-el the father of Me-thu'sha-el, and Me-thu'sha-el the father of Lamech.
Genesis 4:23
Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, hearken to what I say: I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
Genesis 4:24
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
Leviticus 26:20
and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:36
And as for those of you that are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
Psalms 109:10
May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!

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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