Scripture · Old Testament
Exodus 4:16
Exodus 4:16 is verse 16 of Exodus chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
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.
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.
Read in context
Exodus 4:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
Read all of Exodus 4Hebrew words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Study Exodus 4:16
Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 7:1The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
Exodus 7:2You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.
Exodus 18:19Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their causes to Him.
Psalms 82:6I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’
John 10:34Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?
John 10:35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—