God Renews His Promise to Israel

6 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For ^(A)with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand ^(B)he will drive them out of his land.”

² And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am ^[a]the Lord. ^3 (C)I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as ^(D)God Almighty, but by My name ^(E)Lord^[b] I was not known to them. ^4 (F)I have also ^[c]established My covenant with them, ^(G)to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their ^[d]pilgrimage, ^(H)in which they were ^[e]strangers. ⁵ And ^(I)I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. ⁶ Therefore say to the children of Israel: ^(J)‘I am the Lord; ^(K)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will ^(L)rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with ^[f]an outstretched arm and with great judgments. ⁷ I will ^(M)take you as My people, and ^(N)I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out ^(O)from under the burdens of the Egyptians. ⁸ And I will bring you into the land which I ^(P)swore^[g] to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the Lord.’ ” ⁹ So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; ^(Q)but they did not heed Moses, because of ^(R)anguish^[h] of spirit and cruel bondage.

¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹ “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the children of Israel go out of his land.”

¹² And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “The children of Israel have not heeded me. How then shall Pharaoh heed me, for ^(S)I am ^[i]of uncircumcised lips?”

¹³ Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a ^(T)command^[j] for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

The Family of Moses and Aaron^(U)

¹⁴ These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: ^(V)The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben. ^15 (W)And the sons of Simeon were ^[k]Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These are the families of Simeon. ¹⁶ These are the names of ^(X)the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven. ^17 (Y)The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimi according to their families. ¹⁸ And ^(Z)the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred and thirty-three. ^19 (AA)The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Levi according to their generations.

²⁰ Now ^(AB)Amram took for himself ^(AC)Jochebed, his father’s sister, as wife; and she bore him ^(AD)Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and thirty-seven. ^21 (AE)The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. ²² And ^(AF)the sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Zithri. ²³ Aaron took to himself Elisheba, daughter of ^(AG)Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, as wife; and she bore him ^(AH)Nadab, Abihu, ^(AI)Eleazar, and Ithamar. ²⁴ And ^(AJ)the sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These are the families of the Korahites. ²⁵ Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and ^(AK)she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

²⁶ These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their ^(AL)armies.”^{[l] 27} These are the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, ^(AM)to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are the same Moses and Aaron.

Aaron Is Moses’ Spokesman

²⁸ And it came to pass, on the day the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, ²⁹ that the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the Lord. ^(AN)Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.”

³⁰ But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, ^(AO)I am ^[m]of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh heed me?”