Today's Reading | May 3, 2025
Exodus 4:1–17
Introduction Exodus 4:1–17: Moses continues to voice objections to the commission he has been given by God, prompting God to give Moses miraculous powers and to appoint Moses’s brother, Aaron, to be Moses’s spokesperson. Today’s Key Verse: Exodus 4:11a–12 The LORD said to [Moses]: “Who gives man his mouth? … Now, go! I will help you to speak, and I…
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