But the Lord replied to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: because of a strong hand he will let them go, and because of a strong hand he will drive them from his land.”^o

GOD PROMISES FREEDOM

²Then God spoke to Moses, telling him, “I am the Lord. ³I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name ‘the Lord.’^A^a ⁴I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as aliens.^b ⁵Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered^c my covenant.

⁶“Therefore tell the Israelites: I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians and rescue you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm^d and great acts of judgment. ⁷I will take you as my people,^e and I will be your God. You will know^f that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians. ⁸I will bring you to the land that I swore^B^g to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.” ⁹Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen^h to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.

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Footnotes

ALord (in small capitals) stands for the personal name of God, which in is Yahweh. There is a long tradition of substituting “Lord” for “Yahweh” out of reverence.
B raised my hand

Cross references

o Ex 3:19; 12:31,33,39
a Gn 17:1; Ex 3:14; Ps 68:4; 83:18; Jn 8:58
b Gn 15:18; 28:4
c Gn 9:15; Ex 2:24; 1Ch 16:15; Ps 105:8; 106:45; 111:4
d Ex 3:17; Dt 7:8; 26:8; 1Ch 17:21
e Dt 4:20; 2Sm 7:24
f Ex 16:12; 29:45; Is 41:20; Rv 21:7
g Gn 14:22; 15:18; 26:3
h Ex 5:21; Ac 7:25