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He added, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

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

God said to Moses, " I am that I am ." And he said, "You must say this to the Israelites, ‘ I am has sent me to you.'"

Then Moses said to the Lord , "O my Lord, I am not an eloquent man, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."

So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, "Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving you straw.

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

Therefore, tell the Israelites, ‘I am the Lord . I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.

I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord !'"

he said to him, "I am the Lord . Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you."

Then the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord , when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.

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

But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.

If you do not release my people, then I am going to send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.

But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land.

Moses said, "I am going to go out from you and pray to the Lord , and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again by not releasing the people to sacrifice to the Lord ."

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

and in order that in the hearing of your son and your grandson you may tell how I made fools of the Egyptians and about my signs that I displayed among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord ."

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord .