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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for compelled by my strong hand he will release them, and by my strong hand he will drive them out of his land." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am the LORD. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name 'theLORD' I was not known to them. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Therefore, tell the Israelites, 'I am the LORD. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob--and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!'" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then the LORD said to Moses, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But Moses replied to the LORD, "If the Israelites did not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with difficulty?" |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites 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, the firstborn son of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Now these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (The length of Levi's life was 137 years.) |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The sons of Gershon, by their families, were Libni and Shimei. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. (The length of Kohath's life was 133 years.) |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of Levi, according to their records. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. (The length of Amram's life was 137 years.) |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zikri. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and 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 were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Now Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' households of Levi according to their clans. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, "Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27They were the men who were speaking to Pharaoh king of Egypt, in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. It was the same Moses and Aaron. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28When the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29he said to him, "I am the LORD. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you." |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30But Moses said before the LORD, "Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?" |
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