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I don’t know if this is a valid interpretation, but it is something to think about from Dictionary of Quotations by Bergen Evans 1978
Now the Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth (Numbers 12:3)
Commentary:
A difficult passage, since the statement –presumably written by Moses himself–doesn’t fit the facts within any known meaning of the word meek. Moses killed the Egyptian taskmaster, he destroyed Pharaoh’s host, he smashed the tablets of the Ten Commandments, he literally forced the golden calf down the throats of its worshippers, he instigated the slaying of 3,000 Israelites as a disciplinary measure, and he smote the rock in Horeb–all of which is hard to reconcile with meekness.
In 1941, speaking before the annual meeting of the Oriental Society, Professor O> R> Sellers, Professor of Old Testament at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Chicago, offered a solution. He pointed out that meek here is a mistranslation of a Hebrew word that would be better rendered as vexed, bad-tempered, irritable. The New Yorker thought that this might throw light on another puzzling passage: The meek…shall inherit the earth.
I believe Moses stuttered, but does that mean he is meek?

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