Exodus 3:4–14

⁴So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called ^gto him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!”

And he said, “Here I am.”

⁵Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. ^hTake your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.” ⁶Moreover He said, ⁱ“I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for ^jhe was afraid to look upon God.

⁷And the Lord said: ^k“I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry ^lbecause of their taskmasters, ^mfor I know their ¹sorrows. ⁸So ⁿI have come down to ^odeliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land ^pto a good and large land, to a land ^qflowing with milk and honey, to the place of ^rthe Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. ⁹Now therefore, behold, ^sthe cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the ^toppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. ^10uCome now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

¹¹But Moses said to God, ^v“Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

¹²So He said, ^w“I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a ^xsign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

¹³Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”

¹⁴And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ^y‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”