¹¹ But Moses said to God, “Who am I^(A) that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

¹⁸ “The elders of Israel will listen^(A) to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews,^(B) has met^(C) with us. Let us take a three-day journey^(D) into the wilderness to offer sacrifices^(E) to the Lord our God.’

¹¹ The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute?^(A) Who gives them sight or makes them blind?^(B) Is it not I, the Lord?

¹² Now go;^(A) I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”^(B)

¹⁵ You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth;^(A) I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do.

⁵ “Woe^(A) to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!^(B) For I am a man of unclean lips,^(C) and I live among a people of unclean lips,^(D) and my eyes have seen^(E) the King,^(F) the Lord Almighty.”^(G)

⁶ Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal^(H) in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷ With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;^(I) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.^(J)”

⁸ Then I heard the voice^(K) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?^(L) And who will go for us?^(M)”

And I said, “Here am I.^(N) Send me!”

⁹ He said, “Go^(O) and tell this people: