Exodus 3:7–15

⁷Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out ^xbecause of their oppressors, and I know about their sufferings. ⁸I 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 ^y—the territory of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ^z9The Israelites’ cry for help has come to Me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing ^athem. 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 ^bthat I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

¹²He answered, “I will certainly be with you, ^cand this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship ^dGod at this mountain.”

¹³Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them: The God of your fathers 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. ^efThis 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: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever; ^gthis is how I am to be remembered in every generation.