1But 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.”[ † ]Exodus 3:19Exodus 12:31-33, 39
2God also told Moses, “I am the Lord. 3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the Lord I did not make Myself known to them.[ † ]Genesis 17:1Genesis 35:9Genesis 48:3Genesis 28:3Genesis 35:11Exodus 3:14-15Exodus 15:3Psalms 68:4Psalms 83:18Isaiah 52:6Jeremiah 16:21Ezekiel 37:6-13John 8:58 4I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.[ † ]Genesis 12:7Genesis 15:18Genesis 17:4-7, 8Genesis 26:3Genesis 28:4-13Genesis 47:9Leviticus 25:23Genesis 28:4 5Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.[ † ]Exodus 2:24Job 34:28Acts 7:34
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.[ † ]Exodus 13:3-14Exodus 20:2Deuteronomy 6:12Exodus 3:17Exodus 7:4Exodus 12:51Exodus 16:6Exodus 18:1Deuteronomy 26:8Psalms 136:11Exodus 15:13Deuteronomy 7:81 Chronicles 17:21Nehemiah 1:10 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.[ † ]Exodus 19:5Deuteronomy 4:20Deuteronomy 7:62 Samuel 7:24Genesis 17:7Exodus 29:45-46Leviticus 26:12-13, 45Deuteronomy 29:13Revelation 21:7Exodus 5:4-5 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!’”[ † ]Genesis 15:18Genesis 26:3Numbers 14:30Nehemiah 9:15Ezekiel 20:5-6
9Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.[ † ]Exodus 5:21Exodus 2:23Numbers 21:4
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 Lord’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”[ † ]Exodus 4:10Exodus 6:30Jeremiah 1:6
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.[ † ]Numbers 27:19-23Deuteronomy 31:14
14These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.[ † ]Genesis 46:9Numbers 26:5-111 Chronicles 5:3 15The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.[ † ]Genesis 46:10Numbers 26:12-141 Chronicles 4:24 16These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.[ † ]Genesis 46:11Numbers 3:171 Chronicles 6:16-30 17The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.[ † ]1 Chronicles 6:17 18The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.[ † ]1 Chronicles 6:2-18 19The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites according to their records.[ † ]1 Chronicles 6:191 Chronicles 23:21 20And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.[ † ]Exodus 2:1-2Numbers 3:19Numbers 26:59 21The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.[ † ]Numbers 16:11 Chronicles 6:37-38 22The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.[ † ]Leviticus 10:4 23And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.[ † ]Ruth 4:19-201 Chronicles 2:10Matthew 1:4Leviticus 10:1Numbers 3:2Numbers 26:60Exodus 28:1 24The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the clans of the Korahites.[ † ]Numbers 26:11 25Aaron’s son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families by their clans.[ † ]Numbers 25:7-11Joshua 24:33
26It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”[ † ]Exodus 7:4Exodus 12:17-51Numbers 33:1 27Moses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.[ † ]Exodus 6:13Exodus 32:7Exodus 33:1Psalms 77:20
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.”[ † ]Exodus 6:11Exodus 7:2
30But in the Lord’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”[ † ]Exodus 4:10Exodus 6:12Jeremiah 1:6