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When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am."

He said further, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"

God said to Moses, "I am who I am ." He said further, "Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.'"

But Moses said to the Lord , "O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have spoken to your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."

God also spoke to Moses and said to him: "I am the Lord .

Say therefore to the Israelites, ‘I am the Lord , and I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians.

I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord .'"

But Moses spoke to the Lord , "The Israelites have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, poor speaker that I am?"

he said to him, "I am the Lord ; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am speaking to you."

But Moses said in the Lord 's presence, "Since I am a poor speaker, why would Pharaoh listen to me?"

The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord , when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them."

Thus says the Lord , "By this you shall know that I am the Lord ." See, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall be turned to blood.

Moses said to Pharaoh, "Kindly tell me when I am to pray for you and for your officials and for your people, that the frogs may be removed from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile."

But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people live, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I the Lord am in this land.

and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I have made fools of the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them—so that you may know that I am the Lord ."

For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord .

I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, so that I will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his army; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord . And they did so.

And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord , when I have gained glory for myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his chariot drivers."