Exodus 3:13–22

¹³Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”

¹⁴God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.^Eu This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.” ¹⁵God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever;^v this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

¹⁶“Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.^{w 17}And I have promised you that I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt^a to the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁸They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.^b

¹⁹“However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, even under force from a strong hand.^{c 20}But when I stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my miracles that I will perform in it, after that, he will let you go.^{d 21}And I will give these people such favor with the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.^{e 22}Each woman will ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry, and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”^f