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do it, he said. “Who am I, that I shouldgo to Pharaoh?” he pleaded. “I havenever been eloquent. I am slow <strong>of</strong>speech and tongue.”It was only when God paired him upwith his extroverted brother Aaron thatMoses agreed to take on the assignment.Moses would be the speechwriter,the beh<strong>in</strong>d-the-scenes guy, theCyrano de Bergerac; Aaron would bethe public face <strong>of</strong> the operation. “It willbe as if he were your mouth,” said God,“and as if you were God to him.”Complemented by Aaron, Moses ledthe Jews from Egypt, provided for them<strong>in</strong> the desert for the next forty years,and brought the Ten Commandmentsdown from Mount S<strong>in</strong>ai. And he did allthis us<strong>in</strong>g strengths that are classicallyassociated with <strong>in</strong>troversion: climb<strong>in</strong>g amounta<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> search <strong>of</strong> wisdom and187/929

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