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Then Moses said to God, "Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?' What shall I say to them?"

God said to Moses, "^[g](v)I AM WHO ^[h]I AM"; and He said, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘^[i]I AM has sent me to you.'"

God, furthermore, said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘^(w)The Lord , the God of your fathers, 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 ^(x)memorial-name ^[j]to all generations.

Go and ^(y)gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘^(z)The Lord , the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "^[k](aa)I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.

So ^(ab)I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of ^(ac)the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land ^(ad)flowing with milk and honey."'