Exodus 3:1-9 ▼

1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

2 Then the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.

3 So Moses thought: I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up?

4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, “ Moses, Moses! ”“ Here I am,” he answered.

5 “ Do not come closer,” He said. “ Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

6 Then He continued, “ I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

7 Then the LORD said, “ I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I know about their sufferings.

8 I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey  — the territory of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

9 The Israelites’ cry for help has come to Me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.