Exodus 3:2–10

²Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush.^l As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed. ³So Moses thought, “I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up?”

⁴When 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.”^{m 6}Then he continued, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”ⁿ Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

⁷Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out^o because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings, ⁸and 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^p—the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.^{q 9}So because the Israelites’ cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing^r them, ¹⁰therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”