Exodus 3:13–22

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, “^1aI 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.

¹⁶“Go and ^agather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘^bThe Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “^1cI am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.

¹⁷“So ^aI said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of ^bthe Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land ^cflowing with milk and honey.” ’

¹⁸“^aThey will ¹pay heed to what you say; and ^byou with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a ^cthree days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’

¹⁹“But I know that the king of Egypt ^awill not permit you to go, ^bexcept ¹under compulsion.

²⁰“So I will stretch out ^aMy hand and strike Egypt with all My ^bmiracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and ^cafter that he will let you go.

²¹“I will grant this people ^afavor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

²²“But every woman ^ashall ask of her neighbor and the woman who lives in her house, articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and daughters. Thus you will ^bplunder the Egyptians.”