Exodus 4:11
Good News Translation
The LORD said to him, "Who gives man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or dumb? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? It is I, the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD said to him, “Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Contemporary English Version
But the LORD answered, "Who makes people able to speak or makes them deaf or unable to speak? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Don't you know that I am the one who does these things?

New American Bible
The LORD said to him: Who gives one person speech? Who makes another mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

Genesis 18:14 Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.

Psalm 51:15 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

Psalm 94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

Psalm 146:8 The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.

Isaiah 6:7 And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.

Isaiah 35:5,6 Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. . . .

Isaiah 42:7 That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Jeremiah 1:6,9 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child. . . .

Ezekiel 3:26,27 And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they are a provoking house. . . .

Ezekiel 33:22 And the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before he that was fled came: and he opened my mouth till he came to me in the morning, and my mouth being opened, I was silent no more.

Amos 3:6 Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done?

Context
The Appointment of Aaron
10Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue. 11The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?12Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.…
Cross References
Matthew 11:5
The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Luke 1:20
And behold, thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be able to speak until the day wherein these things shall come to pass: because thou hast not believed my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time.

Luke 1:64
And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed: and he spoke, blessing God.

John 10:21
Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

Genesis 11:7
Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Psalm 94:9
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

Psalm 146:8
The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.

Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.

Jeremiah 1:9
And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:

Exodus 4:10
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