Exodus 4:16
Good News Translation
He will be your spokesman and speak to the people for you. Then you will be like God, telling him what to say.

New Revised Standard Version
He indeed shall speak for you to the people; he shall serve as a mouth for you, and you shall serve as God for him.

New American Bible
He will speak to the people for you: he will be your spokesman, and you will be as God to him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.

Exodus 7:1,2 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, I have appointed thee the god of Pharao; and Aaron, thy brother, shall be thy prophet. . . .

Exodus 18:19 But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their words to him:

Psalm 82:6 I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

John 10:34,35 Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said, you are gods? . . .

Context
The Appointment of Aaron
15Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his month, and will shew you what you must do. 16He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.17And take this rod in thy hand. wherewith thou shalt do the signs.…
Cross References
Exodus 4:12
Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.

Exodus 4:30
And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses: and he wrought the signs before the people.

Exodus 7:1
And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, I have appointed thee the god of Pharao; and Aaron, thy brother, shall be thy prophet.

Exodus 7:2
Thou shalt speak to him all that I command thee; and he shall speak to Pharao, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Jeremiah 36:32
And Jeremiah took another volume, and gave it to Baruch the son of Nerias the scribe: who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Joakim the king of Juda had burnt with fire: and there were added besides many more words than had been before.

Exodus 4:15
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