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

²⁹ Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders^(A) of the Israelites, ³⁰ and Aaron told them everything the Lord had said to Moses. He also performed the signs^(B) before the people, ³¹ and they believed.^(C) And when they heard that the Lord was concerned^(D) about them and had seen their misery,^(E) they bowed down and worshiped.^(F)