Exodus 6

God Promises Deliverance

6But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with ^ea strong hand he will ^fdrive them out of his land.”

²God spoke to Moses and said to him, ^g“I am the Lord. ³I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as ^hGod Almighty,¹ but by my name the ⁱLord I did not make myself known to them. ^4jI also established my covenant with them ^kto give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. ⁵Moreover, ^lI have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. ⁶Say therefore to the people of Israel, ^m‘I am the Lord, and ⁿI will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and ^oI will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. ⁷I ^pwill take you to be my people, and ^qI will be your God, and you shall know that ^mI am the Lord your God, who has brought you out ⁿfrom under the burdens of the Egyptians. ⁸I will bring you into ^rthe land that I ^sswore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. ^mI am the Lord.’ ” ⁹Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they ^tdid not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

¹⁰So the Lord said to Moses, ¹¹“Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.” ¹²But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, the people of Israel have ^tnot listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for ^uI am of uncircumcised lips?” ¹³But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron

¹⁴These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the ^vsons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben. ¹⁵The ^wsons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the clans of Simeon. ¹⁶These are the names of the ^xsons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being 137 years. ¹⁷The ^ysons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans. ¹⁸The ^zsons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, the years of the life of Kohath being 133 years. ¹⁹The ^asons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their generations. ^20bAmram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years. ^21cThe sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. ²²The ^dsons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri. ²³Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of ^eAmminadab and the sister of ^fNahshon, and she bore him ^gNadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ²⁴The ^hsons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the clans of the Korahites. ²⁵Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and ⁱshe bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.

²⁶These are the Aaron and Moses ^jto whom the Lord said: “Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt ^kby their hosts.” ²⁷It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron.

²⁸On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, ²⁹the Lord said to Moses, ^l“I am the Lord; ^mtell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.” ³⁰But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, ⁿI am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?”