10. And Moses said to Yahweh, “Please, Lord, I am not a man of words, neither recently nor in the past nor since your speaking to your servant, because I am heavy of mouth and of tongue.”
11. And Yahweh said to him, “Who gave a mouth to humankind, or who makes mute or deaf or sighted or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?
12. So then go, and I myself will be with your mouth, and I will teach you what you must speak.”
13. And he said, “Please, Lord, do send anyone else whom you wish to send.”
14. And Yahweh was angry with Moses and said, “Is there not Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he certainly can speak, and also there he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will rejoice in his heart.
15. And you will speak to him, and you will put words in his mouth, and I myself will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you must do.
16. And he will speak for you to the people, and then he will be to you as a mouth, and you will be to him as a god.
17. And you must take this staff in your hand, with which you will do the signs.”
18. And Moses went, and he returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and he said to him, “Please let me go, and let me return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and let me see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19. And Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt because all the men have died who were seeking your life.”
20. And Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on the donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
21. And Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go to return to Egypt, see all of the wonders that I have put in your hand, and do them before Pharaoh, and I myself will harden his heart, and he will not release the people.
22. And you must say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Israel is my son, my firstborn.”