Êxodo 3

¹ Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to theIt was so called after the law was given.mountain of God, [even] toCalled also Sinai.Horeb.

² And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of aThis shows that the Church is not consumed by the fires of affliction, because God is in the midst of it.bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.

³ Therefore Moses saide, I will turne aside nowe, and see this great sight, why the bush burneth not.

⁴ And when theWhom he calls the angel in (Exo_3:2).LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.

⁵ And he said, Draw not nigh hither:Resign yourself to me; (Rth_4:7; Jos_5:15).put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest [is]Because of my presence.holy ground.

⁶ Moreover he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he wasFor sin causes man to fear God's justice.afraid to look upon God.

⁷ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of theirWhose cruelty was intolerable.taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

⁸ And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a landMost plentiful of all things.flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

⁹ He heard before, but now he would avenge it.Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

¹⁰ Come now therefore, and I will send thee vnto Pharaoh, that thou maiest bring my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

¹¹ And Moses said unto God, Who [am]He does not fully disobey God, but acknowledges his own weakness.I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

¹² And he said,Neither fear your own weakness, or Pharaoh's tyranny.Certainly I will be with thee; and this [shall be] a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

¹³ Then Moses said vnto God, Behold, when I shall come vnto the children of Israel, and shall say vnto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me vnto you: if they say vnto me, What is his Name? What shall I say vnto them?

¹⁴ And God said unto Moses, IThe God who has always been, am, and shall be: the God almighty, by whom all things have their being, and the God of mercy, mindful of my promise.AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

¹⁵ And God spake further vnto Moses, Thus shalt thou say vnto the children of Israel, The Lorde God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Izhak, and the God of Iaakob hath sent me vnto you: this is my Name for euer, and this is my memoriall vnto all ages.

¹⁶ Go & gather the Elders of Israel together, & thou shalt say vnto the, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Izhak, & Iaakob appeared vnto me, & said, I haue surely remembred you, & that which is done to you in Egypt.

¹⁷ Therefore I did say, I wil bring you out of the affliction of Egypt vnto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, vnto a lande that floweth with milke and honie.

¹⁸ And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we mayBecause Egypt was full of idolatry, God would appoint them a place where they could serve him purely.sacrifice to the LORD our God.

¹⁹ But I know, that the King of Egypt wil not let you goe, but by strong hande.

²⁰ Therefore will I stretch out mine hande and smite Egypt with all my wonders, which I will doe in the middes thereof: and after that shall he let you goe.

²¹ And I will make this people to be fauoured of the Egyptians: so that when ye go, ye shal not goe emptie.

²² This example may not be followed generally: though at God's commandment they did it justly, receiving some recompence for their labours.But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put [them] upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.