God Promises Deliverance
And the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: for by a strong hand he will let them go, and by a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
And God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD.
And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty — but by my name the LORD I was not known to them.
And I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they sojourned.
And I have also heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom Egypt is making serve — and I have remembered my covenant.
Therefore say to the sons of Israel: ‘I am the LORD. And I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt, and I will deliver you from their labor, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
And I will take you to myself as a people, and I will be your God. And you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of Egypt.
And I will bring you into the land that I lifted my hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob — and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’”
And Moses spoke this way to the sons of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, out of shortness of breath and hard labor.
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.”
And Moses spoke before the LORD: “Look — the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, when I am uncircumcised of lips?”
And 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.
Genealogies of Moses and Aaron
These are the heads of their fathers’ houses. The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of the Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their families.
And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred and thirty-three years.
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
And Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister as his wife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.
And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahite.
And Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites, by their families.
It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.”
They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt — this Moses and Aaron.
And it happened, on the day the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
that the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the LORD. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am speaking to you.”
And Moses said before the LORD, “Look — I am uncircumcised of lips; how will Pharaoh listen to me?”