Exodus 6:1-13

1Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for 12under compulsion he will let them go, and 3under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.”

2God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am 4the Lord; 3and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as 56God Almighty, but by 7My name, 8Lord, I did not make Myself known to them. 4I also established 9My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the 10land in which they sojourned. 5Furthermore I have 11heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. 6Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘12I am the Lord, and 13I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also 14redeem you with 15an outstretched arm and with great judgments. 7Then I will take you 1617for My people, and 18I will be 19your God; and 20you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8I will bring you to the land which 21I 22swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and 23I will give it to you for a possession; 24I am the Lord.’” 9So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on 25account of their 26despondency and cruel bondage.

10Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 11“27Go, 28tell Pharaoh king of Egypt 29to let the sons of Israel go out of his land.” 12But Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; 30how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am 3132unskilled in speech?” 13Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.