¹²And He said, “Certainly ^aI will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: ^bwhen you have brought the people out of Egypt, ^cyou shall ¹serve God at this mountain.”

¹³Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am about to come to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ And they will say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”

¹⁴And God said to Moses, “¹^aI AM WHO ²I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘³I AM has sent me to you.’”

¹⁵And God furthermore said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘^aYahweh, 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, and this is My ^bmemorial-name from generation to generation.

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Exodus 3:14: God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‛I AM has sent me to you.’”

Footnotes

1Or be a slave for
1Related to the name of God, Yahweh, which is derived from the verb hayah; lit to be
2Related to the name of God, Yahweh, which is derived from the verb hayah; lit to be
3Related to the name of God, Yahweh, which is derived from the verb hayah; lit to be

Cross references

a Gen 15:13, 14; Ex 12:40, 41; Mic 6:4; Acts 7:6, 7
a Ex 4:10; 6:12; 1 Sam 18:18
a Gen 31:3; Ex 4:12, 15; 33:14–16; Deut 31:23; Josh 1:5; Is 43:2
b Ex 19:1
c Ex 19:2, 3; Acts 7:7
a Ex 6:3; John 8:24, 28, 58; Heb 13:8; Rev 1:8; 4:8
a Ex 3:6, 13
b Ps 30:4; 97:12; 102:12; 135:13; Hos 12:5