⁷ The angel of the Lord^(A) found Hagar near a spring^(B) in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.^{(C) 8} And he said, “Hagar,^(D) slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”^(E)

“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

⁹ Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” ¹⁰ The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”^(F)

¹¹ The angel of the Lord^(G) also said to her:

¹⁷ God heard the boy crying,^(A) and the angel of God^(B) called to Hagar from heaven^(C) and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid;^(D) God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.

¹¹ But the angel of the Lord^(A) called out to him from heaven,^(B) “Abraham! Abraham!”^(C)

“Here I am,”^(D) he replied.

¹⁵ The angel of the Lord^(A) called to Abraham from heaven^(B) a second time

⁴ When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called^(A) to him from within the bush,^(B) “Moses! Moses!”

And Moses said, “Here I am.”^(C)

⁵ “Do not come any closer,”^(D) God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”^{(E) 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.”^(F) At this, Moses hid^(G) his face, because he was afraid to look at God.^(H)

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

¹¹ But Moses said to God, “Who am I^(U) that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

¹⁶ “Go, assemble the elders^(A) of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob^(B)—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen^(C) what has been done to you in Egypt.

¹³ The angel of the Lord answered, “Your wife must do all that I have told her. ¹⁴ She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, nor drink any wine or other fermented drink^(A) nor eat anything unclean.^(B) She must do everything I have commanded her.”

¹⁵ Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “We would like you to stay until we prepare a young goat^(C) for you.”

¹⁶ The angel of the Lord replied, “Even though you detain me, I will not eat any of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering,^(D) offer it to the Lord.” (Manoah did not realize^(E) that it was the angel of the Lord.)

¹⁷ Then Manoah inquired of the angel of the Lord, “What is your name,^(F) so that we may honor you when your word comes true?”

¹⁸ He replied, “Why do you ask my name?^(G) It is beyond understanding.^[a]” ¹⁹ Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock^(H) to the Lord. And the Lord did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched: ²⁰ As the flame^(I) blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground.^{(J) 21} When the angel of the Lord did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized^(K) that it was the angel of the Lord.

³⁰ “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.