And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
Exodus 6:30 stands in the first, mainly historical division of Exodus embracing chapters 1-18, in the section chapters 5-10 that records the interviews with Pharaoh, the contest with his magicians, and the infliction of the plagues leading to the death of the firstborn and the hurried departure of Israel. It stands in Exodus 1 to 12, which records God's call to the kingdoms of earth at a time three and one-half millenniums ago when Egypt ruled the world as the greatest of the kingdoms, acknowledged for might, power, skill and wisdom in statecraft, sustained by the annual overflow of the river she deified and by the sun she worshiped and from whom her kings took title. It belongs to the account of Moses and Aaron's first appearance before Pharaoh, which is followed by harsher oppression of Israel, God's renewed promises, and the plagues that challenge Egypt's gods.
It stands at the beginning of Israel's deliverance when Israel is in oppression and bondage with the whole power of Egypt set against them, before God's mighty saving work that brings Israel in triumph to the farther side of the Red Sea with the host of Egypt overthrown, a display of creative power unlike any other work done in saving a nation. It is part of a chapter that presents different names of God as expressing the relations he sustains to people, identifying God Almighty with how God was known to Abraham and Jehovah with the name first made known to Moses. What Moses meant by describing his own lips in this way is not explained in what immediately surrounds it.
The verse shows Moses feeling utterly insufficient for the mission God gave him, and despite that weakness his mission succeeded. It stands within the account of the wonderful deliverance of Israel from Egypt which, together with the deliverance at the Red Sea, demonstrated God's wisdom, love, and power and His ability and right to rule, and established Israel's obligation to obey.
Exodus 6:30 stands in the first, mainly historical division of Exodus embracing chapters 1-18, in the section chapters 5-10 that records the interviews with Pharaoh, the contest with his magicians, and the infliction of the plagues leading to the death of the firstborn and the hurried departure of Israel. It stands in Exodus 1 to 12, which records God's call to the kingdoms of earth at a time three and one-half millenniums ago when Egypt ruled the world as the greatest of the kingdoms, acknowledged for might, power, skill and wisdom in statecraft, sustained by the annual overflow of the river she deified and by the sun she worshiped and from whom her kings took title. It belongs to the account of Moses and Aaron's first appearance before Pharaoh, which is followed by harsher oppression of Israel, God's renewed promises, and the plagues that challenge Egypt's gods.
It stands at the beginning of Israel's deliverance when Israel is in oppression and bondage with the whole power of Egypt set against them, before God's mighty saving work that brings Israel in triumph to the farther side of the Red Sea with the host of Egypt overthrown, a display of creative power unlike any other work done in saving a nation. It is part of a chapter that presents different names of God as expressing the relations he sustains to people, identifying God Almighty with how God was known to Abraham and Jehovah with the name first made known to Moses. What Moses meant by describing his own lips in this way is not explained in what immediately surrounds it.
The verse shows Moses feeling utterly insufficient for the mission God gave him, and despite that weakness his mission succeeded. It stands within the account of the wonderful deliverance of Israel from Egypt which, together with the deliverance at the Red Sea, demonstrated God's wisdom, love, and power and His ability and right to rule, and established Israel's obligation to obey.