²⁸And so it was on a certain day^z Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt. ²⁹And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “I am Yahweh. Speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, all that I am speaking to you.” ³⁰And Moses said before Yahweh, “Look, I am a poor speaker.^a And how will Pharaoh listen to me?”

Yahweh Reviews Plans for Bringing the Israelites out of Egypt

7And Yahweh said to Moses, “See, I have made you as a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. ²You will speak all that I will command you, and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, and he will release the Israelites^a from his land. ³And I myself will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will make my signs and my wonders numerous in the land of Egypt. ⁴And Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will put my hand into Egypt and bring out my divisions, my people, the Israelites,^b from the land of Egypt with great punishments. ⁵And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites^c out from their midst.”

⁶And Moses and Aaron did it; as Yahweh commanded them, so they did. ⁷(And Moses was eighty years old,^d and Aaron was eighty-three years old^e when they spoke to Pharaoh.)

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Footnotes

zLiterally “and it was on a day”
aLiterally “uncircumcised of lips”
aLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
dLiterally “a son of eighty year”
eLiterally “a son of three and eighty year”