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Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, "^(r)O Lord, why have You brought harm to this people? Why did You ever send me?

Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, ^(s)and You have not delivered Your people at all."

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for ^[a](a)under compulsion he will let them go, and ^[b]under compulsion he will drive them out of his land."

God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am ^(b)the Lord ;

and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as ^[c](c)God Almighty, but by ^(d)My name, ^[d] Lord , I did not make Myself known to them.

I also established ^(e)My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the ^[e]land in which they sojourned.

Furthermore I have ^(f)heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘^(g)I am the Lord , and ^(h)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also ⁽ⁱ⁾redeem you with ^(j)an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

Then I will take you ^[f](k)for My people, and ^(l)I will be ^[g]your God; and ^(m)you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

I will bring you to the land which ⁽ⁿ⁾I ^[h]swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and ^(o)I will give it to you for a possession; ^(p)I am the Lord .'"

So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on ^(q)account of their ^[i]despondency and cruel bondage.

Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

"^(r)Go, ^[j]tell Pharaoh king of Egypt ^[k]to let the sons of Israel go out of his land."

But Moses spoke before the Lord , saying, "Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; ^(s)how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am ^[l](t)unskilled in speech?"

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.