| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of his land." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am the LORD; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7'Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the LORD.'" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their despondency and cruel bondage. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, "Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?" |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14These are the heads of their fathers' households. The sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi's life was one hundred and thirty-seven years. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the length of Kohath's life was one hundred and thirty-three years. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram's life was one hundred and thirty-seven years. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Aaron's son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' households of the Levites according to their families. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, "Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the sons of Israel from Egypt; it was the same Moses and Aaron. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Now it came about on the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29that the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "I am the LORD; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you." |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30But Moses said before the LORD, "Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?" |
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