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 ¹worship God at this mountain.”

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

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

¹⁵God, furthermore, said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘^aThe Lord, 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 ¹to all generations.

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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 serve
1Related to the name of God, YHWH, rendered Lord, which is derived from the verb HAYAH, to be
1Lit to generation of generation

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