10 Moses now said to Jehovah: “Pardon me, Jehovah, but I have never been a fluent speaker, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech* and slow of tongue.”+

12 However, Moses replied to Jehovah: “Look! The Israelites have not listened to me;+ how will Pharʹaoh ever listen to me, as I speak with difficulty?”*+