⁷And Yahweh said, “Surely I have seen the misery of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings. ⁸And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from this land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites^b and the Hittites^c and the Amorites^d and the Perizzites^e and the Hivites^f and the Jebusites.^g ⁹And now, look, the cry of distress of the Israelites^h has come to me, and also I see the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. ¹⁰And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you must bring my people, the Israelites,ⁱ out from Egypt.”

¹¹But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites^j out from Egypt?” ¹²And he said, “Because I am with you, and this will be the sign for you that I myself have sent you: When you bring the people out from Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain.”

Read in Logos

Footnotes

bHebrew “Canaanite”
cHebrew “Hittite”
dHebrew “Amorite”
eHebrew “Perizzite”
fHebrew “Hivite”
gHebrew “Jebusite”
hLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
iLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
jLiterally “sons/children of Israel”