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Exodus 3
Exodus 3
... New International Version
Moses and the Burning Bush
1 Now Moses was tending the flock
of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the
far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2 There the angel of the LORD appeared
to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was
on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses
thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn
up."
4 When the LORD saw that he had
gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!"
And Moses said, "Here I am."
5 "Do not come any closer," God
said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy
ground." 6 Then he said, "I am the God
of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At
this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7 The LORD said, "I have indeed
seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of
their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
8 So I have come down to rescue them
from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good
and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the
Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
9 And now the cry of the Israelites
has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
10 So now, go. I am sending you to
Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."
11 But Moses said to God, "Who am
I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"
12 And God said, "I will be with
you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you
have brought the people out of Egypt, you
will worship God on this mountain."
13 Moses said to God, "Suppose I
go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to
you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?"
14 God said to Moses, "I am who I
am . This is
what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' "
15 God also said to Moses, "Say to
the Israelites, '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, the name by which I am to be
remembered from generation to generation.
16 "Go, assemble the elders of
Israel and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen
what has been done to you in Egypt. 17
And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of
the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land
flowing with milk and honey.'
18 "The elders of Israel will
listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to
him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day
journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.'
19 But I know that the king of Egypt
will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him.
20 So I will stretch out my hand and
strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After
that, he will let you go.
21 "And I will make the Egyptians
favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go
empty-handed. 22 Every woman is to ask
her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold
and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will
plunder the Egyptians."
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