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Then Moses returned to the LORD and said, "^(C1)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, ^(C1)and You have not rescued Your people at all."

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for ^(F1)(C1)under compulsion he will let them go, and ^(F1)under compulsion he will drive them out of his land."

God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am ^(C1)the LORD;

and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as ^(F1)(C1)God Almighty, but by ^(C2)My name, ^(F2)LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.

"I also established ^(C1)My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the ^(F1)land in which they lived as strangers.

"Furthermore I have ^(C1)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, '^(C1)I am the LORD, and ^(C2)I will bring you out from under the labors of the Egyptians, and I will rescue you from their bondage. I will also ^(C3)redeem you with ^(C4)an outstretched arm, and with great judgments.

'Then I will take you ^(F1)(C1)as My people, and ^(C2)I will be ^(F2)your God; and ^(C3)you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the labors of the Egyptians.

'I will bring you to the land which ^(C1)I ^(F1)swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and ^(C2)I will give it to you as a possession; ^(C3)I am the LORD.'"

So Moses said this to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on ^(C1)account of their ^(F1)despondency and cruel bondage.

Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

"^(C1)Go, ^(F1)tell Pharaoh king of Egypt ^(F2)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; ^(C1)how then will Pharaoh listen to me, as I am ^(F1)(C2)unskilled in speech?"

Nevertheless, the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron and gave them a command concerning the sons of Israel and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.