¹²And God said, “I will be with you.ⁿ And this will be the sign^o to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you^b will worship God on this mountain.^p”

¹³Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’^q Then what shall I tell them?”

¹⁴God said to Moses, “I am who I am.^c This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am^r has sent me to you.’ ”

¹⁵God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,^d the God of your fathers^s—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob^t—has sent me to you.’

“This is my name^u forever,

the name you shall call me

from generation to generation.^v

¹⁶“Go, assemble the elders^w of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob^x—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen^y what has been done to you in Egypt. ¹⁷And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt^z into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’^a

¹⁸“The elders of Israel will listen^b to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews,^c has met^d with us. Let us take a three-day journey^e into the wilderness to offer sacrifices^f to the Lord our God.’ ¹⁹But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand^g compels him. ²⁰So I will stretch out my hand^h and strike the Egyptians with all the wondersⁱ that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.^j

²¹“And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed^k toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.^l ²²Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver^m and goldⁿ and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder^o the Egyptians.”^p

Read in Logos

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

bThe Hebrew is plural.
cOr I will be what I will be
dThe Hebrew for Lord sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for I am in verse 14.

Cross references

m Ex 4:10; 6:12, 30; Jdg 6:15; 1 Sa 9:21; 15:17; 18:18; 2 Sa 7:18; 2 Ch 2:6; Isa 6:5; Jer 1:6
nSee Ge 26:3; See Ex 14:22; Ro 8:31
o Nu 26:10; Jos 2:12; Jdg 6:17; Ps 86:17; Isa 7:14; 8:18; 20:3; Jer 44:29
pSee ver 1; Ac 7:7
qSee Ge 32:29
r Ex 6:2–3; Jn 8:58; Heb 13:8; Rev 1:8; 4:8
s Ge 31:42; Da 2:23
tSee Ge 24:12
u Ex 6:3, 7; 15:3; 23:21; 34:5–7; Lev 24:11; Dt 28:58; Ps 30:4; 83:18; 96:2; 97:12; 135:13; 145:21; Isa 42:8; Jer 16:21; 33:2; Hos 12:5
v Ps 45:17; 72:17; 102:12
w Ex 4:29; 17:5; Lev 4:15; Nu 11:16; 16:25; Dt 5:23; 19:12; Jdg 8:14; Ru 4:2; Pr 31:23; Eze 8:11
xSee Ge 24:12
y Ex 4:31; 2 Ki 19:16; 2 Ch 6:20; Ps 33:18; 66:7
zSee Ge 15:16; 46:4; Ex 6:6
aSee ver 8
b Ex 4:1, 8, 31; 6:12, 30
cSee Ge 14:13
d Nu 23:4, 16
eSee Ge 30:36
f Ex 4:23; 5:1, 3; 6:11; 7:16; 8:20, 27; 9:13; 10:9, 26
g Ex 4:21; 6:6; 7:3; 10:1; 11:9; Dt 4:34; 2 Ch 6:32
h Ex 6:1, 6; 7:4–5; 9:15; 13:3, 9, 14, 16; 15:6, 12; Dt 4:34, 37; 5:15; 7:8; 26:8; 2 Ki 17:36; 2 Ch 6:32; Ps 118:15–16; 136:12; Isa 41:10; 63:12; Jer 21:5; 51:25; Da 9:15
i Ex 4:21; 7:3; 11:9, 10; 15:11; 34:10; Nu 14:11; Dt 3:24; 4:34; 6:22; Ne 9:10; Ps 71:19; 72:18; 77:14; 78:43; 86:10; 105:27; 106:22; 135:9; 136:4; Jer 32:20; Mic 7:15; Ac 7:36
j Ex 11:1; 12:31–33
kSee Ge 39:21
l Ex 11:2; 2 Ch 30:9; Ne 1:11; Ps 105:37; 106:46; Jer 42:12
m Job 27:16–17
n Ex 11:2; 12:35; Ezr 1:4, 6; 7:16; Ps 105:37
oSee Ge 15:14; Eze 39:10
p Eze 29:10