Exodus 5:23-6:11
New American Standard Bible 1995
23 Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, (A)and You have not delivered Your people at all.”
God Promises Action
6 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for [a](B)under compulsion he will let them go, and [b]under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.”
2 God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am (C)the Lord; 3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as [c](D)God Almighty, but by (E)My name, [d]Lord, I did not make Myself known to them. 4 I also established (F)My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the [e]land in which they sojourned. 5 Furthermore I have (G)heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. 6 Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘(H)I am the Lord, and (I)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also (J)redeem you with (K)an outstretched arm and with great judgments. 7 Then I will take you [f](L)for My people, and (M)I will be [g]your God; and (N)you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you to the land which (O)I [h]swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and (P)I will give it to you for a possession; (Q)I am the Lord.’” 9 So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on (R)account of their [i]despondency and cruel bondage.
10 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 11 “(S)Go, [j]tell Pharaoh king of Egypt [k]to let the sons of Israel go out of his land.”
Footnotes
- Exodus 6:1 Lit by a strong hand
- Exodus 6:1 Lit by a strong hand
- Exodus 6:3 Heb El Shaddai
- Exodus 6:3 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
- Exodus 6:4 Lit land of their sojournings in which...
- Exodus 6:7 Lit to Me for a people
- Exodus 6:7 Lit to you for a God
- Exodus 6:8 Lit lifted up My hand
- Exodus 6:9 Lit shortness of spirit
- Exodus 6:11 Lit speak to
- Exodus 6:11 Lit that he let
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