Exodus 3:2-10

2Then 1the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of 2a 3bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not being consumed. 3So Moses said, “4I must turn aside and see this 5marvelous sight, why the bush is not burning up!” 4When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, 6God 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; 7remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6And He said, “8I am the God of your father--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” 9Then Moses hid his face, for he was 10afraid to look at God.

7And the Lord said, “I have certainly 11seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their outcry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. 8So I have come down 12to rescue them from the 13power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a 14good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of 15the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 9And now, behold, 16the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, 17so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”