Daily Bread

¹¹ But Moses said to God, “Who am I^(A) that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

¹² And God said, “I will be with you.^(B) And this will be the sign^(C) to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you^[a] will worship God on this mountain.^(D)”

¹³ Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’^(E) Then what shall I tell them?”

¹⁴ God said to Moses, “I am who I am.^[b] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am^(F) has sent me to you.’”

¹⁵ God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,^[c] the God of your fathers^(G)—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob^(H)—has sent me to you.’

¹⁶ “Go, assemble the elders^(K) of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob^(L)—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen^(M) what has been done to you in Egypt. ¹⁷ And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt^(N) into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’^(O)

¹⁸ “The elders of Israel will listen^(P) to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews,^(Q) has met^(R) with us. Let us take a three-day journey^(S) into the wilderness to offer sacrifices^(T) to the Lord our God.’ ¹⁹ But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand^(U) compels him. ²⁰ So I will stretch out my hand^(V) and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders^(W) that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.^(X)

²¹ “And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed^(Y) toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.^{(Z) 22} Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver^(AA) and gold^(AB) and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder^(AC) the Egyptians.”^(AD)