⁵ “Do not come any closer,”^(A) God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”^{(B) 6} Then he said, “I am the God of your father,^[a] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.”^(C) At this, Moses hid^(D) his face, because he was afraid to look at God.^(E)

⁷ The Lord said, “I have indeed seen^(F) the misery^(G) of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned^(H) about their suffering.^{(I) 8} So I have come down^(J) to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land,^(K) a land flowing with milk and honey^(L)—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites^(M) and Jebusites.^{(N) 9} And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing^(O) them. ¹⁰ So now, go. I am sending^(P) you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”^(Q)