God Renews His Promise

¹Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land." ²God spoke to Moses and told him, "I am the LORD. ³I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I did not reveal myself to them by my name, the LORD. ⁴I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they were strangers. ⁵Now I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and I have remembered my covenant. ⁶So tell the Israelites this: 'I am the LORD. I will free you from the crushing labor the Egyptians have forced on you. I will rescue you from slavery. I will redeem you with my outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. ⁷I will claim you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. ⁸I will bring you into the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a heritage. I am the LORD. ⁹Moses spoke to the children of Israel, but they did not listen to him because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage. ¹⁰Then the LORD spoke to Moses: ¹¹"Go and tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to let the Israelites leave his land." ¹²But Moses spoke to the LORD, saying, "Look, the children of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, since I have uncircumcised lips?" ¹³The LORD spoke to both Moses and Aaron, giving them orders regarding the Israelites and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.