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Moses at the burning bush

¹Moses was looking after the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock deep into the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. ²There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire coming out of a bush. Moses looked, and although the bush was ablaze, it was not burning away. ³Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this remarkable sight. Why is the bush not burning away?” ⁴When the LORD saw that he had come over to look, God called out to him from the bush: “Moses! Moses!” “Yes, I am here,” he answered. ⁵“Come no nearer,” God said. “Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you stand is holy ground.” ⁶Then God said, “I am the God your father worshiped, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.” Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.^{a 7}The LORD said, “I have taken full note of the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them cry out under their taskmasters. I know how they are suffering. ⁸I have come down to rescue them from the power of Egypt and to lead them up out of that country into a fine, wide land, a land flowing with milk and honey, where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. ⁹The outcry of the Israelites has now reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians are crushing them. ¹⁰Go, then. I will send you to Pharaoh, and you are to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.” ¹¹But Moses said to God, “Who am I to go to Pharaoh, and to bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” ¹²God answered, “I will be with you. And this will be your proof that I am the one who sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God here on this mountain.”^{b 13}Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What answer am I to give them?” ¹⁴God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”^{c 15}God also told Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has sent me to you.’ That is my name for all time, the name by which I am to be remembered in every generation. ¹⁶Go and call together the elders of Israel and tell them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, appeared to me. He said, “I have come to your aid, and I have taken note of how you are treated in Egypt. ¹⁷I have resolved to lead you up from your suffering in Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’ ¹⁸They will listen to you. Then you and the elders of Israel are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has come to meet us. Now please allow us to make a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifice to the LORD our God.’ ¹⁹I know, though, that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless he is forced by a mighty hand.^{d 20}So I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with every kind of wonder that I will do there. Then at last he will send you away. ²¹I will make the Egyptians look kindly on this people, so that when you leave, you will not go away with nothing. ²²Every woman is to ask her Egyptian neighbor, and any woman lodging in her house, for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. You will dress your sons and daughters in them, and so you will strip Egypt of its wealth.”