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do it, he said. “Who am I, that I should

go to Pharaoh?” he pleaded. “I have

never been eloquent. I am slow of

speech and tongue.”

It was only when God paired him up

with his extroverted brother Aaron that

Moses agreed to take on the assignment.

Moses would be the speechwriter,

the behind-the-scenes guy, the

Cyrano de Bergerac; Aaron would be

the public face of the operation. “It will

be as if he were your mouth,” said God,

“and as if you were God to him.”

Complemented by Aaron, Moses led

the Jews from Egypt, provided for them

in the desert for the next forty years,

and brought the Ten Commandments

down from Mount Sinai. And he did all

this using strengths that are classically

associated with introversion: climbing a

mountain in search of wisdom and

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