Exodus 3:7-10

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⁷The 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) ⁸So 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) ⁹And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing^(J) them. ¹⁰So now, go. I am sending^(K) you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”^(L)

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Psalm 135:5-9

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⁵I know that the Lord is great,^(A)
    that our Lord is greater than all gods.^(B)
⁶The Lord does whatever pleases him,^(C)
    in the heavens and on the earth,^(D)
    in the seas and all their depths.
⁷He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
    he sends lightning with the rain^(E)
    and brings out the wind^(F) from his storehouses.^(G)

⁸He struck down the firstborn^(H) of Egypt,
the firstborn of people and animals.
⁹He sent his signs^(I) and wonders into your midst, Egypt,
against Pharaoh and all his servants.^(J)