Exodus 4:13 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 4:13

And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

KJV

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ASV

And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

WEB

But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”

YLT

and he saith, `O, my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand Thou dost send.'

DBT

And he said, Ah Lord! send, I pray thee, by the hand [of him whom] thou wilt send.

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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Jonah 1:3
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
Exodus 4:1
And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
Acts 26:19
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
Jonah 1:6
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Matthew 13:41
The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

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I am not eloquent--It is supposed that Moses labored under a natural defect of utterance or had a difficulty in the free and fluent expression of his ideas in the Egyptian language, which he had long disused. This new objection was also overruled, but still Moses, who foresaw the manifold difficulties of the undertaking, was anxious to be freed from the responsibility.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

): "Send by any hand but mine; thou canst certainly find one much more fit." Note, An unwilling mind will take up with a sorry excuse rather than none, and is willing to devolve those services upon others that have any thing of difficulty or danger in them. How God condescends to answer all his excuses. Though the anger of the Lord was kindled against him (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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