The Angel of the Lord at Bokim

2 The angel of the Lord^(A) went up from Gilgal^(B) to Bokim^(C) and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt^(D) and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors.^(E) I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,^(F)

⁴² I will remember my covenant with Jacob^(A) and my covenant with Isaac^(B) and my covenant with Abraham,^(C) and I will remember the land.

⁷ I will establish my covenant^(A) as an everlasting covenant^(B) between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God^(C) and the God of your descendants after you.^{(D) 8} The whole land of Canaan,^(E) where you now reside as a foreigner,^(F) I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you;^(G) and I will be their God.^(H)”

God’s Angel to Prepare the Way

²⁰ “See, I am sending an angel^(A) ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.^(B)

³⁰ “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. ³¹ When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to get a closer look, he heard the Lord say:^{(A) 32} ‘I am the God of your fathers,^(B) the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’^[a] Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.^(C)

³³ “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.^(D)

⁷ The Lord appeared to Abram^(A) and said, “To your offspring^[a] I will give this land.^(B)”^(C) So he built an altar there to the Lord,^(D) who had appeared to him.

¹⁰ Then I took my staff called Favor^(A) and broke it, revoking^(B) the covenant I had made with all the nations.