Exodus 6

God Promises Deliveranceⓘ

God renews his promise to Israel¹But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand he will let the people go; because of My strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

²God also told Moses, “I am the Lord. ³I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty,^a but by My name the Lord I did not make Myself known to them. ⁴I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners. ⁵Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.

⁶Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. ⁷I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. ⁸And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord!’”

The people will not listen⁹Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.

¹⁰So the Lord said to Moses, ¹¹“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”

¹²But in the Lordʼs presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?^b”

¹³Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

Genealogies of Moses and Aaronⓘ

The family heads of Reuben, Simeon, and Levi¹⁴These were the heads of their fathersʼ houses:

Moses and Aaron sent again to Pharaoh²⁶It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.” ²⁷Moses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

²⁸Now on the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in Egypt, ²⁹He said to him, “I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”

³⁰But in the Lordʼs presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”