Question: Who said, “I am slow of speech.”?
Answer: Moses. (Exodus 4:10)
Comments: When called by God to lead the exodus, Moses cites his being inarticulate as an excuse to avoid the task.
Then Moses said to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue." (Exodus 4:10, NASB)
In response, God supplies his older brother Aaron as a mouthpiece. Though Aaron mediates between Moses and the Hebrew people (Excodus 4:30), it will be Moses who addresses Pharaoh. (Exdous 5:1ff) It would appear Moses was more afraid of speaking to the people he was called to free than to their oppressor.
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