Exodus 3:1-8 ▼

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.