But Moses said to the Lord: since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me? Moses repeats the objection of verse 12 almost verbatim. After the genealogy, after the renewed commission, after the divine declaration I am the Lord, Moses is still asking the same question. The persistence of the objection is not faithlessness — it is the honest assessment of a man who knows himself. Yet the very repetition that might seem like failure is about to give way to action. Exodus 7 begins immediately with God's answer, and within verses Moses and Aaron are standing before Pharaoh performing signs. The last question before the action is always asked from the edge of the threshold. Moses is standing at the door of everything that is about to happen, still asking if he is the right person. He is. God knew that when He called him. The calling does not wait for the called to feel ready.

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