Verse Dt05-24 discussing the fright the Jews had of prophecy and the request for Moses to be an intermediary between them and God states Go thou [m] near, and hear all that HaShem our G-d may say; and thou [f] shalt speak unto us all that HaShem our G-d may speak unto thee; and we will hear it and do it.'

Recall, in Hebrew, unlike English, there are two distinct words for "you"-one is used for males and one for females Af the beginning of this verse the proper male "you" is used. However in the middle of the verse Moses, a man, is referred to as a female you.

Here the Bible uses the technique call puns. Puns are fully discussed
• in my article Puns
• in the list of puns at List080a on the Rashi website.

As explained in my article A pun is a literary techique of distortion of spoken or written texts to impart relevant secondary meaning That is a pun is a deliberate distortion of pronunciation, grammar and similar items in order to communicate a secondary meaning in a sentence

In this case the primary meaning of the verse is thou [Moses] shalt speak unto us all that HaShem our G-d may speak unto thee; But by using the female thou the verse indicates a secondary meaning Rashi: I, Moses, became 'weak as a female' from this request at the thought that you didn't want to speak to God directly as in a love relationship but rather wanted me as an intermediary as in a fear relationship.

We have used L Heller's 1974 classification of puns Here the pun involves a distortion of grammatical rules. Heller introduces 11 methods of puns including distortions of grammar, spelling, pronunciation, gestures etc.