Exodus 3:1-10

1Now Moses was pasturing the flock of 1Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the 2west side of the wilderness and came to 3Horeb, the 4mountain of God. 25The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of 6a 7bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. 3So Moses said, “89I must turn aside now and see this 10marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.” 4When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, 11God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5Then He said, “Do not come near here; 12remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6He said also, “13I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” 14Then Moses hid his face, for he was 15afraid to look at God.

7The Lord said, “I have surely 16seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. 8So I have come down 17to deliver them from the 18power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a 19good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of 20the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. 9Now, behold, 21the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, 22so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”