Exodus 3:1-20 ▼

1 And Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

2 And the angel of YHWH appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush. And he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with the fire, and the bush was not consumed.

3 And Moses said, “Let me turn aside, please, and see this great sight. Why does the bush not burn?”

4 And YHWH saw that he had turned aside to look, and God called to him from the midst of the bush and He said, “Moses! Moses!” And he said, “Behold, it is I.”

5 And He said, “Do not come near here. Remove your sandals from upon your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

6 And He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look toward God.

7 And YHWH said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and their cry I have heard from before their taskmasters, for I know their pains;

8 and I have come down to deliver them from out of the hand of Egypt and to bring them up from that land to a land good and broad, to a land flowing with milk and honey—to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

9 And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me, and also I have seen the oppression with which Egypt is oppressing them.

10 And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you shall bring out My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”

11 And Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”

12 And He said, “Surely I will be with you, and this is the sign to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you? shall serve God on this mountain.”

13 And Moses said to God, “Behold, I am coming to the sons of Israel and I will say to them, ‘The God of your? fathers has sent me to you?,’ and they will say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”

14 And God said to Moses, “Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘Ehyeh has sent me to you?.’”

15 And God said moreover to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘YHWH, the God of your? fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you?.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation.

16 Go and gather together the elders of Israel, and say to them, ‘YHWH, the God of your? fathers, has appeared to me—the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob—saying: I have surely attended to you? and what is being done to you? in Egypt.

17 And I have said I will bring you? up out of the affliction of Egypt, to the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite—to a land flowing with milk and honey.’

18 And they will listen to your voice, and you shall come—you and the elders of Israel—to the king of Egypt, and you? shall say to him, ‘YHWH, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. And now, let us go, please, a journey of three days into the wilderness, and let us sacrifice to YHWH our God.’

19 And I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you? to go, unless by a mighty hand.

20 And I will stretch out My hand, and I will strike Egypt with all My wonders that I will do in its midst. And after that, he will send you? out.