God Promises Deliverance

²² Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people?^(A) Is this why you sent me? ²³ Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued^(B) your people at all.”

6 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand^(C) he will let them go;^(D) because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.”^(E)

² God also said to Moses, “I am the Lord.^{(F) 3} I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,^[a](G) but by my name^(H) the Lord^[b](I) I did not make myself fully known to them. ⁴ I also established my covenant^(J) with them to give them the land^(K) of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.^{(L) 5} Moreover, I have heard the groaning^(M) of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.^(N)

⁶ “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.^(O) I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem^(P) you with an outstretched arm^(Q) and with mighty acts of judgment.^{(R) 7} I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God.^(S) Then you will know^(T) that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. ⁸ And I will bring you to the land^(U) I swore^(V) with uplifted hand^(W) to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.^(X) I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.’”^(Y)

⁹ Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.^(Z)

¹⁰ Then the Lord said to Moses, ¹¹ “Go, tell^(AA) Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.”^(AB)

¹² But Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites will not listen^(AC) to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips^[c]?”^(AD)

The High Priest of a New Covenant

8 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest,^(A) who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,^{(B) 2} and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle^(C) set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.

³ Every high priest^(D) is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices,^(E) and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.^{(F) 4} If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.^{(G) 5} They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy^(H) and shadow^(I) of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned^(J) when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”^{[a](K) 6} But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant^(L) of which he is mediator^(M) is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.

⁷ For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.^{(N) 8} But God found fault with the people and said^[b]:

¹³ By calling this covenant “new,”^(W) he has made the first one obsolete;^(X) and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.