Parallel Verses
Amplified
But he said, “Please my Lord, send the message [of rescue to Israel] by [someone else,] whomever else You will [choose].”
New American Standard Bible
But he said, “Please, Lord, now
King James Version
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Holman Bible
Moses said, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
International Standard Version
Moses said, "Please, LORD, send somebody else."
A Conservative Version
And he said, Oh, LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou will send.
American Standard Version
And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Bible in Basic English
And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send.
Darby Translation
And he said, Ah Lord! send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Julia Smith Translation
And he will say, With leave, my Lord, send by the hand thou shalt send.
King James 2000
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray you, by the hand of another whom you will send.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he said, "Please, Lord, do send {anyone else whom you wish to send}."
Modern King James verseion
And he said, O my Lord, I pray You, send by the hand of him whom You will send.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he said, "O my Lord, send I pray thee whom thou wilt."
NET Bible
But Moses said, "O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!"
New Heart English Bible
He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."
The Emphasized Bible
And he said - Pardon, O My Lord! send, I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send -
Webster
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
World English Bible
He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."
Youngs Literal Translation
and he saith, 'O, my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand Thou dost send.'
Themes
Call » To special religious duty » moses
Communion » Instances of » moses
Condescension of God » Reasons with moses
Despondency » Instances of » moses » When sent on his mission to the israelites
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 4:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Provides Signs And Help For Speaking
12 Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and will teach you what you shall say.” 13 But he said, “Please my Lord, send the message [of rescue to Israel] by [someone else,] whomever else You will [choose].” 14 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled and burned against Moses; He said, “Is there not your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. Also, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be overjoyed.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7
The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, from the land of my family and my birth, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you [to guide you], and you will take a wife from there for my son [and bring her here].
Genesis 48:16
The
Bless the boys;
And may my name live on in them [may they be worthy of having their names linked with mine],
And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And may they grow into a [great] multitude in the midst of the earth.”
Exodus 4:1
Then Moses answered [the Lord] and said, “What if they will not believe me or take seriously what I say? For they may say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’”
Exodus 23:20
“Behold, I am going to send an
Judges 2:1
Now the
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Jeremiah 1:6
Then I said, “Ah, Lord God!
Behold, I do not know how to speak,
For I am [only] a young man.”
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, “I will not remember Him
Or speak His name anymore,”
Then my heart becomes a burning fire
Shut up in my bones.
And I am weary of enduring and holding it in;
I cannot endure it [nor contain it any longer].
Ezekiel 3:14-15
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went embittered [by the sins of Israel] in the rage of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.
Jonah 1:3
But Jonah ran away to Tarshish to escape from the presence of the Lord [and his duty as His prophet]. He went down to
Jonah 1:6
So the captain came up to him and said, “How can you stay asleep? Get up! Call on your god! Perhaps your god will give a thought to us so that we will not perish.”
Matthew 13:41
John 6:29
Jesus answered,