Exodus 6:1–9

Israel’s Deliverance Assured

⁶Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh: indeed, by a mighty hand he will let them go; by a mighty hand he will drive them out of his land.”^*

²God also spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord. ³I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty,^k but by my name ‘The Lord’^l I did not make myself known to them.^{* 4}I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they resided as aliens.^{* 5}I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and I have remembered my covenant.^{* 6}Say therefore to the Israelites: I am the Lord, and I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.^{* 7}I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians.^{* 8}I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.”^{* 9}Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel slavery.