God's response to Moses' speech objection is a series of rhetorical questions that expand into a declaration of sovereignty: 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? The questions do not mock Moses; they reframe his concern. His tongue is not outside God's governance — God made it. If Moses' speech is limited, God made that limitation; if God is now commissioning him to speak, God can equip what He made. Psalm 94:9 asks the same rhetorical question about sight: does He who formed the eye not see? The argument is the same: the creator of the capacity is not limited by the capacity He created. Matthew 10:19–20 will later tell the disciples not to worry about what to say, for the Spirit will speak through them. Moses' mouth, slow or not, will be the instrument through which the most consequential speeches in the Old Testament are delivered.

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