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Exodus 7 · a question people ask

Did God make Moses a god?

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No. Moses had just said, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?" (6:30). The LORD answers, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet" (7:1), and explains at once: "You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh" (7:2). He had said the same at the bush: Aaron "will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God" (4:16). Moses gives the word and Aaron speaks it, the way a prophet speaks for God. Moses himself speaks only what God commands, and "Moses and Aaron did so. As the LORD commanded them, so they did" (7:6).

The verses

“Moses said before the LORD, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?””
Exodus 6:30 · World English Bible
“The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.”
Exodus 7:1-2 · World English Bible
“You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.”
Exodus 4:15-16 · World English Bible
“Moses and Aaron did so. As the LORD commanded them, so they did.”
Exodus 7:6 · World English Bible

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Exodus 7: The river turned to blood

Pharaoh had said, "I don't know the LORD"; in Exodus 7 God answers, "The Egyptians shall know." Aaron speaks as Moses' prophet, his mouth. Aaron's rod swallowed the magicians' rods, and the river Pharaoh had ordered every newborn son cast into was turned to blood. The magicians made more of it, and Pharaoh went home without taking it to heart.

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