Exodus 3

¹Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law , Jethro , the priest of Midian , and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb , the mountain of God .

²And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush . He looked , and behold , the bush was burning , yet it was not consumed .

³And Moses said , I will turn aside to see this great sight , why the bush is not burned .

⁴When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see , God called to him out of the bush , Moses , Moses ! And he said , Here I am .

⁵Then he said , Do not come near ; take your sandals off your feet , for the place on which you are standing is holy ground .

⁶And he 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 , for he was afraid to look at God .

⁷Then the Lord said , I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters . I know their sufferings ,

⁸and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land , a land flowing with milk and honey , to the place of the Canaanites , the Hittites , the Amorites , the Perizzites , the Hivites , and the Jebusites .

⁹And now , behold , the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

¹⁰Come , I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people , the children of Israel , out of Egypt .

¹¹But Moses said to God , Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt ?

¹²He said , But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt , you shall serve God on this mountain .

¹³Then Moses said to God , If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, What is his name ? what shall I say to them?

¹⁴God said to Moses , I AM WHO I AM . And he said , Say this to the people of Israel , 'I AM has sent me to you .'

¹⁵God also said to Moses , Say this to the people of Israel , The 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 thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations .

¹⁶Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers , the God of Abraham , of Isaac , and of Jacob , has appeared to me, saying , I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt ,

¹⁷and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites , the Hittites , the Amorites , the Perizzites , the Hivites , and the Jebusites , a land flowing with milk and honey .

¹⁸And they will listen to your voice , and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews , has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days ’ journey into the wilderness , that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God .

¹⁹But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand .

²⁰So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it ; after that he will let you go .

²¹And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians ; and when you go , you shall not go empty ,

²²but each woman shall ask of her neighbor , and any woman who lives in her house , for silver and gold jewelry , and for clothing . You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters . So you shall plunder the Egyptians .