6And Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, because with a strong hand he will release them, and with a strong hand he will drive them out from his land.”

²And God spoke to Moses, and he said to him, “I am Yahweh. ³And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Shaddai,^a but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them. ⁴And I not only established my covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they dwelt as aliens, ⁵but also I myself heard the groaning of the Israelites,^b whom the Egyptians are making to work, and I remembered my covenant. ⁶Therefore say to the Israelites,^c ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the forced labor^d of Egypt, and I will deliver you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great punishments. ⁷And I will take you as my people,^e and I will be your God,^f and you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the forced labor^g of Egypt. ⁸And I will bring you to the land that I swore^h to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh.”

⁹And Moses spoke thus to the Israelites,ⁱ but they did not listen to Moses, because of discouragement^j and because of hard work.

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Footnotes

aOften translated as “Almighty”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
dLiterally “burdens” or “burdensome labor”
eLiterally “to/for me for a people”
fLiterally “to/for you for a God”
gLiterally “burdens” or “burdensome labor”
hLiterally “that I raised my hand”
iLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
jLiterally “a lack of spirit” or “shortness of spirit”