Delay – Loss of hope – Restoration

And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

Then Moses said to the LORD, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.

But since then there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face

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