The Lord said to Moses: see, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. The language is extraordinary — Moses is designated as like God before Pharaoh, and Aaron as his prophet, his mouthpiece. The structure mirrors the divine arrangement: as God speaks and prophets deliver His word, so Moses receives and Aaron declares. The relationship being described here is not one of equals but of source and voice. John 1:1 describes the Word in relation to God before creation: the same logic of delegated authority, the word going out from the source. Moses will be to Pharaoh what God is to Moses — the originating authority whose word must be reckoned with. This elevation does not make Moses divine; it makes him the representative of the divine in the most consequential negotiation of the ancient world.

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