Exodus 6:1-12

New King James Version

God Renews His Promise to Israel

6 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For ^(A)with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand ^(B)he will drive them out of his land.”

² And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am ^[a]the Lord. ^3 (C)I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as ^(D)God Almighty, but by My name ^(E)Lord^[b] I was not known to them. ^4 (F)I have also ^[c]established My covenant with them, ^(G)to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their ^[d]pilgrimage, ^(H)in which they were ^[e]strangers. ⁵ And ^(I)I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. ⁶ Therefore say to the children of Israel: ^(J)‘I am the Lord; ^(K)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will ^(L)rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with ^[f]an outstretched arm and with great judgments. ⁷ I will ^(M)take you as My people, and ^(N)I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out ^(O)from under the burdens of the Egyptians. ⁸ And I will bring you into the land which I ^(P)swore^[g] to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the Lord.’ ” ⁹ So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; ^(Q)but they did not heed Moses, because of ^(R)anguish^[h] of spirit and cruel bondage.

¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹ “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the children of Israel go out of his land.”

¹² And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “The children of Israel have not heeded me. How then shall Pharaoh heed me, for ^(S)I am ^[i]of uncircumcised lips?”