Was Moses mute

Answer 1

Moses supposedly was born to a Hebrew (Habiru) and, to save his life, was cast into the river in an ark of bullrushes, whence he was rescued by Pharaoh's daughter who was tricked into putting him out to nurse with his own mother. But at a young age, he was handed back to princess as her son, in other words a member of the royal family where he no doubt became fluent in high cast Egyptian. Reared by an Egyptian princess, there was no opportunity for him to learn Hebrew. But after murdering the Egyptian he fled, and apparently conversed with the herd maid and her father (in what language Exodus(supposedly Moses himself) sayeth not). Moses had trouble keeping the name of his father in law (a Midianite) straight -- Reuel or Jethro who knew? Maybe Moses had two wives and two fathers in law with different names. Maybe there were two Exoduses (or is it Exodi?) written by two different Moseses. Who can say? When I AM commissions Moses to lead the people, and equips him with parlor tricks to convince them, Moses compains that he is not eloquent. Maybe not in Hebrew talk, but surely in Egyptian, because he has no trouble threatening pharaoh with the death of his eldest son with death. I think there were two pharaohs as well. I AM gets annoyed with Moses's whining, and appoints Aaron as PR man, perhaps because Moses does not speak Hebrew so good. When Moses and Aaron gather all the Hebrew elders together, it is Aaron who repeats the wordws I AM spake to Moses, not Moses himself. There is only one conclusion to be drawn: Moses was not fluent in Hebrew. He was certainly not mute in Egyptian and probably not in Midianite (from listening to Zipporah ya-da ya-da..)