EXODUS—NOTE ON Exodus 6:12 I am of uncircumcised lips (compare v. Exodus 6:30). It is difficult to determine whether Moses means something different from being “slow of speech and of tongue” (Exodus 4:10). The phrase may echo Exodus 4:24. If so, Moses could be saying that he feels not only physically unable to speak (Exodus 4:10) but also personally unfit to fulfill the task (compare Isaiah 6:5).

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