Exodus 3:4-11
4 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, (A)God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
5 Then He said, “Do not come near here; (B)remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
6 He said also, “(C)I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” (D)Then Moses hid his face, for he was (E)afraid to look at God.
7 The Lord said, “I have surely (F)seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.
8 So I have come down (G)to deliver them from the (a)power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a (H)good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of (I)the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
9 Now, behold, (J)the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.
The Mission of Moses
Footnotes:
a.
Exodus 3:8: ['Lit ', hand]
Cross references:
A.
Exodus 3:4:
Exodus 4:5
D.
Exodus 3:6:
Acts 7:32
G.
Exodus 3:8:
Genesis 15:13-16; Genesis 46:4; Genesis 50:24; Genesis 50:25; Exodus 6:6-8; Exodus 12:51
H.
Exodus 3:8:
Exodus 3:17; Exodus 13:5; Numbers 13:27; Deuteronomy 1:25; Deuteronomy 8:7-9; Jeremiah 11:5; Ezekiel 20:6