God Hears Israel's Groaning

^23 (A)During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel ^(B)groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. ^(C)Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. ²⁴ And ^(D)God heard their groaning, and God ^(E)remembered his covenant with ^(F)Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵ God ^(G)saw the people of Israel—and God ^(H)knew.

⁸ and ^(A)I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and ^(B)to bring them up out of that land to a ^(C)good and broad land, a land ^(D)flowing with milk and honey, to the place of ^(E)the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ⁹ And now, behold, ^(F)the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the ^(G)oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. ^10 (H)Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” ¹¹ But Moses said to God, ^(I)“Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” ¹² He said, ^(J)“But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, ^(K)you shall serve God on this mountain.”