10Moses said to the LORD, Pardon your
servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since
you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and
tongue.
11The LORD said to him, Who gave human beings their
mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them
blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
12Now go; I will
help you speak and will teach you what to say.
13But Moses said,
Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.
14Then the LORDs anger burned against Moses
and he said, What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he
can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will
be glad when he sees you.
15You shall speak
to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will
teach you what to do.
16He will speak
to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if
you were God to him.
17But take this staff in your hand so you can
perform the signs with it.
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24. "Go to Fir'aun (Pharaoh)! Verily, he has transgressed
(all bounds in disbelief and disobedience, and has behaved as an arrogant,
and as a tyrant)."
25. [Mūsa (Moses)] said: "O my Lord! Open
for me my chest (grant me self-confidence, contentment, and boldness).
26. "And ease my task for me;
27. "And make loose the knot (the defect)
from my tongue, (i.e. remove the incorrectness from my speech) [That
occurred as a result of a brand of fire which Mūsa (Moses) put in his
mouth when he was an infant]. [Tafsir At-Tabarī, Vol. 16, Page
159].
28. "That they understand my speech,
29. "And appoint for me a helper from my
family,
30. "Hārūn (Aaron), my brother;
31. "Increase my strength with him,
32. "And let him share my task (of
conveying Allāh's Message and Prophethood),
33. "That we may glorify You much,
34. "And remember You much,
35. "Verily! You are of us Ever a
Well-Seer."
36.
Allāh said: "You are granted
your request, O Mūsa (Moses)!
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