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Cette même verge, tu l’auras à la main, car c’est par elle que tu opéreras les miracles."
Aliya 6
Le Seigneur le laissa en repos. Elle dit alors: "Oui, tu m’es uni par le sang, grâce à la circoncision!"
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Exode 4:10 dans toutes les traductions
English · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009
Moshe said to Adonoy, “I beg You Adonoy, I am not a man of words—not since yesterday, not since the day before—not from the time You [first] spoke to Your servant, for I am clumsy [slow] of mouth [speech] and clumsy [slow] of tongue [language].”
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English · The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein
And Moses said to the L-rd: I pray You, O L-rd, I am not a man of words, also [(connoting an additional day)] from yesterday, also from the day before, also from when You began to speak to Your servant [this being the seventh day of Moses' opposition to the mission (in deference to Aaron's seniority)]; for heavy of speech and heavy of tongue am I.
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עברית · Miqra according to the Masorah
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֣ה אֶל־יְהֹוָה֮ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנָי֒ לֹא֩ אִ֨ישׁ דְּבָרִ֜ים אָנֹ֗כִי גַּ֤ם מִתְּמוֹל֙ גַּ֣ם מִשִּׁלְשֹׁ֔ם גַּ֛ם מֵאָ֥ז דַּבֶּרְךָ֖ אֶל־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֧י כְבַד־פֶּ֛ה וּכְבַ֥ד לָשׁ֖וֹן אָנֹֽכִי׃
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English · The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation (JPS 1917)
And Moses said unto the LORD: ‘Oh Lord, I am not a man of words, neither heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.’
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עברית · Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֣ה אֶל־יְהוָה֮ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנָי֒ לֹא֩ אִ֨ישׁ דְּבָרִ֜ים אָנֹ֗כִי גַּ֤ם מִתְּמוֹל֙ גַּ֣ם מִשִּׁלְשֹׁ֔ם גַּ֛ם מֵאָ֥ז דַּבֶּרְךָ אֶל־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֧י כְבַד־פֶּ֛ה וּכְבַ֥ד לָשׁ֖וֹן אָנֹֽכִי׃
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עברית · Tanach with Text Only
ויאמר משה אל יהוה בי אדני לא איש דברים אנכי גם מתמול גם משלשם גם מאז דברך אל עבדך כי כבד פה וכבד לשון אנכי
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עברית · Tanach with Nikkud
וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה אֶל־יְהוָה בִּי אֲדֹנָי לֹא אִישׁ דְּבָרִים אָנֹכִי גַּם מִתְּמוֹל גַּם מִשִּׁלְשֹׁם גַּם מֵאָז דַּבֶּרְךָ אֶל־עַבְדֶּךָ כִּי כְבַד־פֶּה וּכְבַד לָשׁוֹן אָנֹכִי׃
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ייִדיש · Yehoyesh's Yiddish Tanakh Translation [yi]
האָט משה געזאָגט צו גאָט: איך בעט דיך, גאָט, איך בין ניט קײן מענטש פֿון װערטער, סײַ פֿון נעכטן, סײַ פֿון אײערנעכטן, סײַ פֿון זינט דו רעדסט צו דײַן קנעכט; װאָרום איך בין שװער אױפֿן מױל, און שװער אױף דער צונג.
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Français · Bible du Rabbinat 1899 [fr]
Moïse dit à l’Éternel: "De grâce, Seigneur! je ne suis habile à parler, ni depuis hier, ni depuis avant-hier, ni depuis que tu parles à ton serviteur; car j’ai la bouche pesante et la langue embarrassée."
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Italiano · Il Pentateuco. Traduzione italiana di Samuel David Luzzatto, 1872 [it]
E Mosè disse al Signore: Deh, Signore! Io non sono un parlatore, nè (lo fui) per lo passato, nè (lo divenni) dopo che tu hai parlato al tuo servo; ma sono tardo di bocca e tardo di lingua.
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Polski · Bible in Polish, trans. Izaak Cylkow, 1841 - 1908 [pl]
I rzekł Mojżesz do Wiekuistego: "Wybacz Panie, nie jestem ja człowiekiem wymowy, i nie byłem takim ni wczoraj, ni onegdaj, ni odkąd począłeś mówić ze sługą Twoim, gdyż ociężałych ust i ociężałego języka jestem."
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Deutsch · Die Heilige Schrift, trans. Dr. Simon Bernfeld, Berlin, 1902 - German [de]
Aber Mose sprach zu Gott: Bitte, Herr, ich bin kein Mann von Reden, weder war ich es früher, noch bin ich es jetzt geworden, seitdem du geredet zu deinem Knecht, denn schwer von Mund und von Zunge bin ich.
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Deutsch · Der Pentateuch, übersetzt und erläutert von Samson Raphael Hirsch. Frankfurt am Main, 1867-1878 [de]
Da sprach Mosche zu Gott: O, mein Herr, ich bin kein Mann der Rede, weder von gestern noch vorgestern, noch von da an, daß du zu deinem Diener gesprochen; denn schwer an Mund und schwer an Zunge bin ich.
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Esperanto · La Malnova Testamento, L.L.Zamenhof [eo]
Kaj Moseo diris al la Eternulo: Ho, mia Sinjoro, mi ne estas elokventa, nek de hieraŭ, nek de antaŭhieraŭ, nek de tiu tempo, kiam Vi komencis paroli al Via sklavo; ĉar mi havas nelertan buŝon kaj nelertan langon.
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Commentaires sur Exode 4:10
Rashi
עברית
גם מתמול וגו'. למדנו שכל שבעה ימים היה הקב"ה מפתה את משה בסנה לילך בשליחותו, מתמול שלשום מאז דברך הרי שלשה, ושלשה גמין רבויין הם, הרי ששה, והוא היה עומד ביום הז' כשאמר לו זאת, עוד שלח נא ביד תשלח, עד שחרה בו וקבל עליו. (שמו"ר ג, טז) וכל זה, שלא היה רוצה ליטול גדולה על אהרן אחיו שהיה גדול הימנו, ונביא היה, שנאמר (הלא אהרן אחיך הלוי וגו', ועוד נאמר לעלי הכהן) הֲנִגְלֹה נִגְלֵיתִי אֶל בֵּית אָבִיךָ בְּהיֹותָם בְּמִצְרַיִם (שמואל־א ב, כז), הוא אהרן, וכן וָאִוָּדַע לָהֶם בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם וגו' (יחזקאל כ, ה) ואָֹמַר אֲלְיהֶם אִיש שִקּוּצֵי עֵינָיו הַֹשְלִיכוּ, ואותה נבואה לאהרן נאמרה:
כבד פה. בכבידות אני מדבר, ובלשון לע"ז בלב"ו
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Targum Jonathan
English
And Mosheh said before the Lord, O Lord, I pray: I am not a man of words, nor ever have been before that Thou didst speak with Thy servant; for I am of a staggering * mouth and staggering speech. *Or, lame
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Ibn Ezra
עברית
ויאמר. כל המפרשים פה אחד אמרו כי פירוש בי לשון בקשה ור' יהוד' הלוי אמר כי הוא דרך קצרה והטעם בי אדני העון. כלומר עשה בי עונש מה שתרצה והניחני מזה שלא תשלחני. וככה בי אדוני ידבר נא עבדך דבר עשה בי מה שתרצה והניחני לדבר:
איש דברים. יודע לדבר צחות שאיננו מתעכב בלשונו בדברו או מגמגם או שיכבדו על פיו אותיות ידועות ומנהג העברים כאשר ירצו להשוות שני דברים או שלשה יוסיפו מלת גם בתחלה כמו משול בנו גם אתה גם בנך גם בן בנך.
וטעם שלשום לא יאמר תמול כי אם ליום הזה שהוא מדבר בו. והנה שלישי שעבר ליום הזה שהוא מדבר בו והמ"ם כדרך לשון רבים בעבור היום ואתמולו. ואף על פי שאין השי"ן קמוצה כמשפט או המ"ם נוסף באחרונה כאשר הוא נוסף בראשונה ויהי כמשלש חדשים:
גם מאז דברך. מעת דברך כמו ומאז באתי אל פרעה לדבר בשמך. כי לא סר כובד לשונו רק נשאר כאשר היה. והאומר ששכח לשון מצרים איננו נכון כי הוא אומר ב' דברים כבד פה וכבד לשון. ועוד נלמוד מתשובת השם מי שם פה לאדם או מי ישום אלם שאינו מדבר על לשון מצרים רק ככה נולד שהיה כבד פה שלא היה יכול להוציא אותיות השפה וכל אותיות הלשון. רק קצתם היה מוציאם בכובד וזה הוא טעם ואנכי אהיה עם פיך והוריתיך. אמר שיורינו אשר ידבר מלות שאין שם מאותיות הכבדות על פיו:
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Ramban (Nachmanides)
English
AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE ETERNAL: O LORD, I AM NOT A MAN OF WORDS, NEITHER YESTERDAY NOR RECENTLY NOR SINCE THOU HAST SPOKEN UNTO THY SERVANT; FOR I AM SLOW OF SPEECH AND OF A SLOW TONGUE. “This teaches us that for an entire period of seven days, the Holy One, blessed be He, sat and urged Moses to undertake the mission. [The expressions], ‘yesterday,’ ‘recently,’ and ‘since Thou hast spoken,’ imply three days, and the three-fold word gam — [here translated ‘neither’ or ‘nor,’ but literally meaning ‘also’] — points to a similar extension of time. Thus you have six days [that have passed], and it was now the seventh day [when Moses still refused to go on his mission].” Thus the language of Rashi.
In line with the plain meaning of Scripture, the purport of the verse is as follows: [Moses said,] “For I am slow of speech from heretofore and from time past, for I have been slow of speech from my youth on and all the more now that I am old, and also now since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant, for Thou hast not removed the defect in my speech when Thou didst command me to go to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name. How then can I go before him?” Now Moses out of his great desire not to go [on the mission] did not pray before G-d, blessed be He, that He remove his defective speech from him, but he argued: “Since You have not removed my slowness of speech from me from the time You spoke to me to undertake this mission, do not command me to go, for it is inconceivable that the Master of everything should send a man of uncircumcised lips to a king of the nations.” And since Moses did not pray [for the removal of his defect], the Holy One, blessed be He, did not desire to heal him. Instead, He said to him, I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak, meaning that “you will be able to correctly express the words which I will put in your mouth.”
And in V’eileh Shemoth Rabbah, the Rabbis said: “The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses: ‘Do not mind it that you are not a man of words. Have I not made the mouth of all that speak, and him that I desire I made dumb? And have I not made the deaf and the blind, and opened their eyes to see and ears to hear? Now had I wanted that you be a man of words, you would have been so. But it is my desire that you continue to be so, and when you will speak [to Pharaoh] your utterance will be correct, for I will be with thy mouth.’ This is the sense of the verse, Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth.”
According to this Midrash, it appears to me that the reason He did not desire to remove his defective speech from him was because a miraculous event, as told by our Rabbis, happened to Moses when he was still before Pharaoh.
The correct interpretation appears to me to be that G-d said to Moses, “Who hath made man’s mouth? or Who maketh a man dumb? … Is it not I the Eternal Who does all this? I could heal you. But now since you did not want to be healed, nor have you prayed to me about it, go and I will be with thy mouth, and I will cause you success in My mission.” It is also possible that there is a hint in the verse, And the anger of the Eternal was kindled against Moses, that He did not want to heal him, and that He sent him against his will.
Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976 · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Rashbam
English
כי כבד פה וכבד לשון אנכי, I am not fluent in the Egyptian spoken by the upper classes of the aristocracy. The reason is that I fled Egypt before I had completed my education there and in the meantime I am 80 years of age. We find in Ezekiel 3,4-6 that the prophet is told to address the Jewish people as opposed to addressing the local aristocracy whose tongue is described as unintelligible speech and difficult language, i.e. עמקי שפה וכבדי לשון. Is it possible that a prophet who could communicate with G’d freely, i.e. “face to face,” and who received the Torah from Him and communicated it to his people should have been afflicted with a stutter? [one could add to the author’s rejection of the commonly held view of Moses’ speech impediment that if he functioned as High Priest for a full week before his brother Aaron took over, how was that possible if he was afflicted with what would be considered a disabling mum, physical blemish for even an ordinary priest? Ed.] Nowhere in our traditional literature of Tannaim and Amoraim (Talmud) is there such a view expressed, and we certainly have no reason to accept such views when they are expressed in hagiographical writings.
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Sforno
English
לא איש דברים אנכי; I am not experienced in knowing how to address people in authority, such as kings.
גם מתמול, גם משלשום, neither when I was a stranger in a foreign land, nor when I grew up in Pharaoh’s palace, nor since You have spoken to me and I have responded.
כי כבד פה וכבד לשון אנכי, the reason why I do not possess this facility is because the physical tools with which to express my thoughts are defective. I have therefore never even made the effort to develop this facility (compare Isaiah 50,4) לדעת לעות את יעף דבר, “to know how to speak timely words to the weary.”
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Da'at Zekenim
English
ויאמר משה בי אדוני, Moses responded by saying: בי אדוני, “please O Lord, etc.” Moses pointed out that he had been asked to face Pharaoh and his advisors who had command of all seventy languages, and would ridicule him when addressing him in any of these languages which he did not have any command of. They would then add: “In whose name and language do you come to speak to us?” G–d reminded him that it had been He who had enabled Adam to give the proper names in the in all the languages to all of His creatures. (Genesis 2,20) [It did not say there שם in the singular mode, but in the plural mode, i.e. that he named each animal in each of the seventy languages.] If He had been able to enable Adam to do this, Adam who had eaten from the tree of knowledge, it would require only a minor adjustment of Moses’ faculties for him to be able to do so also, and He implied that He would do so immediately, seeing that he had been selected to perform much greater deeds than had Adam. An alternate interpretation of G–d’s response: The words: מי שם פה, “Who has provided a new mouth, etc;” surely the One Who provided the first mouth in the first place at the time of creating human beings with a mouth to express their thoughts. (Attributed to Rabbi Yoseph.) Rabbi Ovadiah interpreted the answer as a rebuke to Moses, who was surely aware of G–d’s abilities, and if He had given Moses a mouth to speak with, He was surely also aware of Moses’ speech defect, and did not need a reminder from him. It is within My power to remedy this. [G–d did not say that He would remedy this, and if so when He would do so. Ed.]
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