Exodus 6:1–9

God Promises Action

¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for ^1aunder compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.”

²God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am ^athe Lord;

³and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as ^1aGod Almighty, but by ^bMy name, ²Lord, I did not make Myself known to them.

⁴“I also established ^aMy covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the ¹land in which they sojourned.

⁵“Furthermore I have ^aheard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

⁶“Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘^aI am the Lord, and ^bI will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also ^credeem you with ^dan outstretched arm and with great judgments.

⁷‘Then I will take you ^1afor My people, and ^bI will be ²your God; and ^cyou shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

⁸‘I will bring you to the land which ^aI ¹swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and ^bI will give it to you for a possession; ^cI am the Lord.’ ”

⁹So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on ^aaccount of their ¹despondency and cruel bondage.