God calls Moses at the burning bush and sends him to Egypt
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📚✭Now Moses was pasturing the flock of his father-in-law Jethro✭, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. 2 📚And the angel✭ of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the middle of a bush. And he looked and saw that the bush was burning with fire✭, but the bush✭ was not consumed. 3 📚And Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight. Why isn’t the bush being burnt up?”4 📚And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses, Moses”. And he said, “Here I am”.
5 📚And he said, “Do not come near here. Take your shoes off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground”. 6 📚He also said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”. And Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7 📚And the Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their slave drivers. For I know their sorrows, 8 📚and have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 📚And now, look, the cry of the children of Israel has reached me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are crushing them. 10 📚So now, come and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you can bring my people the children of Israel out of Egypt”.
Moses objects
11 📚✭And Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
12 📚And he said, “Certainly I will be with you, and this will be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain”.
13 📚And Moses said to God, “Look, when I go to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you’, and they say to me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”
God reveals His name
14 📚✭And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”. And he said, “You shall say this to the children of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”
15 📚And God also said to Moses, “You shall say this to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD 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 the name for remembrance to all generations. 16 📚Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, I have certainly visited you and seen what is being done to you in Egypt, 17 📚and I have said, I will bring you up out of the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.’
18 📚“And they will obey your voice, and you shall come to the king of Egypt, you and the elders of Israel, and you shall say to him, ‘The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now please let us go a three days’ journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.’ 19 📚And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, except by a mighty hand. 20 📚And I will stretch out my hand✭ and strike Egypt with all my wonders✭ which I will do in its midst. And after that he will let you go.
21 📚✭“And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will come about that, when you go, you will not go empty-handed. 22 📚But every woman shall borrow from her neighbour, and from her who is staying a while in her house, ornaments of silver and ornaments of gold, and clothing. And you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters, and so you will plunder the Egyptians”.