¹⁰ But Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, either in the past or more recently or even since you started speaking to your servant, for my mouth and tongue are slow and clumsy.”^[a]

¹¹ So the Lord said to him, “Who made a mouth for people? Or who makes someone mute or deaf, able to see or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? ¹² Now go, and I will be with your mouth, and I will teach you what you will speak.”

¹³ But he said, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”

¹⁴ Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses, and the Lord said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Look, he is already coming out to meet you. He will be very glad to see you. ¹⁵ You will speak to him and put the words into his mouth. I will be with your mouth and with his, and I will teach you what you are to do. ¹⁶ He will speak to the people for you so that it will be as if he were your mouth, and you were God to him. ¹⁷ You will also take this staff in your hand, the one with which you will perform the signs.”