Exodus 4:13

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

ASV

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

LSV

and he says, “O my Lord, please send by the hand [of another that] You send.”

YLT

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

DBY

And he said, Ah Lord! send, I pray thee, by the hand [of him whom] thou wilt send.

DRC

But he said: I beseech thee, Lord send whom thou wilt send.

GNV

But he saide, Oh my Lord, sende, I pray thee, by the hande of him, whome thou shouldest sende.

JPS

And he said: 'Oh Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send.'

LXXE

And Moses said, I pray thee, Lord, appoint another able person whom thou shalt send.

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WLC

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר בִּ֣י אֲדֹנָ֑י שְֽׁלַֽח־נָ֖א בְּיַד־תִּשְׁלָֽח׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ εἶπε Μωυσῆς, δέομαι, Κύριε· προχείρισαι δυνάμενον ἄλλον, ὃν ἀποστελεῖς.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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.’”
• 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…
• 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.
• 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.”
• John 6:29Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”
• Jeremiah 1:6“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
• Ezekiel 3:14–15So 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. I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for…
• 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.
• 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,
• 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.
• 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.”
• 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…
• 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.”

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