Exodus 4:13

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“But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.””

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BSBPD

“But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and he saith, `O, my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand Thou dost send.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 4:13 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 24:7The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
  2. Genesis 41:35Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.
  3. Genesis 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all harm— may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
  4. Exodus 4:1Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”
  5. Exodus 23:20Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
  6. Judges 2:1Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
  7. 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
  8. Jeremiah 1:6“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
  9. Jeremiah 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
  10. Ezekiel 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.
  11. Jonah 1:3Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard to sail for Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.
  12. Jonah 1:6The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
  13. Matthew 13:41The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.
  14. John 6:29Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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