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Exodus 6

God Promises Deliverance

1 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 ^aa strong hand he will ^bdrive them out of his land.”

2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, ^c“I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as ^dGod Almighty, ^{▼

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Hebrew El Shaddai} but by my name the ^f Lord I did not make myself known to them. 4 ^gI also established my covenant with them ^hto give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5 Moreover ⁱI have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Say therefore to the people of Israel ^j‘I am the Lord, and ^kI will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and ^lI will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. 7 I ^mwill take you to be my people, and ⁿI will be your God, and you shall know that ^oI am the Lord your God, who has brought you out ^pfrom under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you into ^qthe land that I ^rswore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. ^sI am the Lord.’” 9 Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they ^tdid not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

10 So the Lord said to Moses, 11 “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.” 12 But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, the people of Israel have ^unot listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for ^vI am of uncircumcised lips?” 13 But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron

14 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the ^wsons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben. 15 The ^xsons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the clans of Simeon. 16 These are the names of the ^ysons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being 137 years. 17 The ^zsons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans. 18 The ^aasons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, the years of the life of Kohath being 133 years. 19 The ^absons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their generations. 20 ^acAmram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years. 21 ^adThe sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. 22 The ^aesons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri. 23 Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of ^afAmminadab and the sister of ^agNahshon, and she bore him ^ahNadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 24 The ^aisons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the clans of the Korahites. 25 Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and ^ajshe bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.

26 These are the Aaron and Moses ^akto whom the Lord said: “Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt ^alby their hosts.” 27 It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron.

28 On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 the Lord said to Moses, ^am“I am the Lord; ^antell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.” 30 But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, ^aoI am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?”