Exodus 3
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Exodus 3:8-17

8So I have come down 1to deliver them from the 2power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a 3good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of 4the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. 9Now, behold, 5the 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, 6so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.” 11But Moses said to God, “7Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” 12And He said, “Certainly 8I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: 9when you have brought the people out of Egypt, 10you shall 11worship God at this mountain.”

13Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” 14God said to Moses, “1213I AM WHO 14I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘15I AM has sent me to you.’” 15God, furthermore, said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘16The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My 17memorial-name 18to all generations. 16Go and 19gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘20The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “2122I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt. 17So 23I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of 24the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land 25flowing with milk and honey.”’

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Notes

  1. 1. Exodus 3:8 Gen 15:13-16; 46:4; 50:24, 25; Ex 6:6-8; 12:51 ↩
  2. 2. Exodus 3:8 Lit hand ↩
  3. 3. Exodus 3:8 Ex 3:17; 13:5; Num 13:27; Deut 1:25; 8:7-9; Jer 11:5; Ezek 20:6 ↩
  4. 4. Exodus 3:8 Gen 15:19-21; Josh 24:11 ↩
  5. 5. Exodus 3:9 Ex 2:23 ↩
  6. 6. Exodus 3:10 Gen 15:13, 14; Ex 12:40, 41; Mic 6:4; Acts 7:6, 7 ↩
  7. 7. Exodus 3:11 Ex 4:10; 6:12; 1 Sam 18:18 ↩
  8. 8. Exodus 3:12 Gen 31:3; Ex 4:12, 15; 33:14-16; Deut 31:23; Josh 1:5; Is 43:2 ↩
  9. 9. Exodus 3:12 Ex 19:1 ↩
  10. 10. Exodus 3:12 Ex 19:2, 3; Acts 7:7 ↩
  11. 11. Exodus 3:12 Or serve ↩
  12. 12. Exodus 3:14 Related to the name of God, YHWH, rendered Lord, which is derived from the verb HAYAH, to be ↩
  13. 13. Exodus 3:14 Ex 6:3; John 8:24, 28, 58; Heb 13:8; Rev 1:8; 4:8 ↩
  14. 14. Exodus 3:14 Related to the name of God, YHWH, rendered Lord, which is derived from the verb HAYAH, to be ↩
  15. 15. Exodus 3:14 Related to the name of God, YHWH, rendered Lord, which is derived from the verb HAYAH, to be ↩
  16. 16. Exodus 3:15 Ex 3:6, 13 ↩
  17. 17. Exodus 3:15 Ps 30:4; 97:12; 102:12; 135:13; Hos 12:5 ↩
  18. 18. Exodus 3:15 Lit to generation of generation ↩
  19. 19. Exodus 3:16 Ex 4:29 ↩
  20. 20. Exodus 3:16 Gen 28:13; 48:15; Ex 3:2, 6; 4:5 ↩
  21. 21. Exodus 3:16 Lit Visiting I have visited ↩
  22. 22. Exodus 3:16 Ex 4:31; Ps 33:18f ↩
  23. 23. Exodus 3:17 Gen 15:13-21; 46:4; 50:24, 25 ↩
  24. 24. Exodus 3:17 Josh 24:11 ↩
  25. 25. Exodus 3:17 Ex 3:8 ↩

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