Exodus 3:11-18

Lexham English Bible

¹¹ But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites^[a] out from Egypt?” ¹² And he said, “Because I am with you, and this will be the sign for you that I myself have sent you: When you bring the people out from Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain.” ¹³ But Moses said to God, “Look, if I go to the Israelites^[b] and I say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors^[c] has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is his name?’ then what shall I say to them?” ¹⁴ And God said to Moses, “I am that I am.” And he said, “So you must say to the Israelites,^[d] ‘I am sent me to you.’”

¹⁵ And God said again to Moses, “So you must say to the Israelites,^[e] ‘Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,^[f] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my remembrance from generation to generation.’ ¹⁶ Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,^[g] appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, “I have carefully attended to you and what has been done to you in Egypt.” ¹⁷ And I said, “I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites^[h] and the Hittites^[i] and the Amorites^[j] and the Perizzites^[k] and the Hivites^[l] and the Jebusites,^[m] to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’ ¹⁸ And they will listen to your voice, and you will go, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you will say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews has met with us, and now let us please go on a journey of three days into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God.’