Exodus 6:1-8

English Standard Version

God Promises Deliverance

6 But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with ^(A)a strong hand he will ^(B)drive them out of his land.”

²God spoke to Moses and said to him, ^(C)“I am the Lord. ³I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as ^(D)God Almighty,^[a] but by my name the ^(E)Lord I did not make myself known to them. ⁴^(F)I also established my covenant with them ^(G)to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. ⁵Moreover, ^(H)I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. ⁶Say therefore to the people of Israel, ^(I)‘I am the Lord, and ^(J)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and ^(K)I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. ⁷I ^(L)will take you to be my people, and ^(M)I will be your God, and you shall know that ^(N)I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out ^(O)from under the burdens of the Egyptians. ⁸I will bring you into ^(P)the land that I ^(Q)swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. ^(R)I am the Lord.’”