Exodus 3:4–14

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.”

¹¹But Moses asked God, “Who am I^s that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

¹²He answered, “I will certainly be with you,^t and this will be the sign to you that I am the one who sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship^D God at this mountain.”

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.”