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Loading ...And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
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Moses was raised in the Egyptian community and spoke the language that was common to his household at the time of his growing up. His exposure to the language of the Hebrews was limited and/or stunted since it didn’t serve his daily functions of his job exposure. That would be similar to me. I speak English in America although within my community there are cultures that speak Spanish and Russian. I’m limited in my ability to speak their language although they live in my town.
Around the age of 40 Moses fled to the Midianites. He most likely had to learn a new dialect or even a variation of a slang language different than what he learned in Egypt. Possibly it would be equal to the difference of Spanish spoken in Spain and Spanish spoken in Mexico.
Moses returned to Egypt around the age of 80 where his language skills are rusty at best from disuse over the last 40 years. His language confidence was low and the burden was heavy. He felt he was ill equiped to be able to address such a weighty issue that God would use him to deliver Isreal out of the hands of Egypt with such a language barrier.
The Hebrew language has unique pronounciations that are difficult at best. How would Moses be able to get up to speed on the language for both Egypt and Isreal when he’s been out of town for 40 years? How would he have the time to pull this off with his speaking skills? He didn’t have a few years to regroup his language skills and bone up on the lingo. Moses was not a slow man in the mind nor was he handicapped in the mouth. It was a language issue that he wresteled with.
The comment that Moses made saying that he was slow of speech and slow of tongue would be describing his efforts to properly say what he needed to say without looking like a fool being slow to figure out how to phrase a sentence then say it. Aaron on the other hand was bi-lingual. Aaron was naturaly raised up with the Hebrew language and had developed the ability to learn the language spoken in Egypt in order to fit in with that society and do his job.
God gave Moses Aaron as a helper to speak For him since he spoke well. Aaron was looked at as the spokesman for Moses. After the Exodus, Moses begins to re-learn the language in the wilderness and is able to speak for himself.