Another Explanation of the Verse and God Spoke

Another interpretation: "And God spoke" (Exodus 20:1). This is what the verse said: "Then He saw it and declared it; He established it, and also searched it out. And afterward He said to man" (Job 28:27-28). The Torah teaches you that if you are a son of Torah, do not let your spirit be coarse, to say a matter before the public, until you have gone over it by yourself two or three times. There was an incident concerning Rabbi Akiva, whom the reader summoned in public to read from the Torah scroll before the congregation, and he did not wish to come up. His disciples said to him: Our teacher, did you not teach us thus, "for it is your life and the length of your days" (Deuteronomy 30:20)? Why then did you refrain from coming up? He said to them: By the Temple service, I refrained from reading only because I had not arranged that portion two or three times, for a person is not permitted to say words of Torah before the public until he has gone over it two or three times by himself. For so we find with the Holy One, blessed be He, that He gives the power of speech to all creatures, and the Torah was revealed before Him like a single star. And when He came to give it to Israel, it is written of it: "Then He saw it and declared it; He established it, and also searched it out. And afterward He said to man" and so forth (Job 28:27-28). And so it is written: "And God spoke all these words" (Exodus 20:1) by Himself, and afterward, "saying."