Exodus 4:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.
In context
14 Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well, and he is now on his way to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
15 You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.
16 He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.
17 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform signs with it.”
18 Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
Exodus 4:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.
- KJV King James Version
- And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
- WEB World English Bible
- He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as God.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and he, he hath spoken for thee unto the people, and it hath come to pass, he — he is to thee for a mouth, and thou — thou art to him for God;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he shall speak for thee unto the people; and it shall come to pass that he shall be to thee for a mouth, and thou shalt be to him for God.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And he shall speak for thee to the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.