analogy occurs in Exodus 4:15–16. Yahweh promises to give words to Moses with which Moses instructs Aaron. Aaron, in turn, speaks to the Israelites as if Moses is God and Aaron, his mouth. Though contemporary readers often think of prophets as predictors whose primary task is to tell the future, the biblical prophets are primarily “forthtellers.” Yahweh calls them to proclaim a message to their own generation so that the people may be reformed in the present, not simply informed regarding the future