Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³⁰ And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai an angel of the Lord, in a flame of fire in a bush. ³¹ When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. And as he drew near to look, the voice of the Lord came to him: ³² I am the God of your fathers – the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses trembled and dared not look. ³³ Then said the Lord to him, Put off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. ³⁴ I have well seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And now, come, and I will send you into Egypt.

³⁵ This Moses – whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? – is the one God sent both a ruler and deliverer by the hands of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶ And this Moses brought them out, showing wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. ³⁷ This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel: The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren. Him you must hear.

³⁸ This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel, who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our fathers. This man received the word of life to give to us – ³⁹ to whom our fathers could not pay heed, but cast it from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, ⁴⁰ saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us! As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.