Exodus 6:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹¹ ‘Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.’ ¹² But Moses spoke to the Lord, ‘The Israelites have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, poor speaker that I am?’^{[a] 13} Thus the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them orders regarding the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, charging them to free the Israelites from the land of Egypt.