Daily Bread

God Promises Deliverance

²² Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people?^(A) Is this why you sent me? ²³ Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued^(B) your people at all.”

6 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand^(C) he will let them go;^(D) because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.”^(E)

² God also said to Moses, “I am the Lord.^{(F) 3} I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,^[a](G) but by my name^(H) the Lord^[b](I) I did not make myself fully known to them. ⁴ I also established my covenant^(J) with them to give them the land^(K) of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.^{(L) 5} Moreover, I have heard the groaning^(M) of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.^(N)

⁶ “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.^(O) I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem^(P) you with an outstretched arm^(Q) and with mighty acts of judgment.^{(R) 7} I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God.^(S) Then you will know^(T) that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. ⁸ And I will bring you to the land^(U) I swore^(V) with uplifted hand^(W) to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.^(X) I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.’”^(Y)

⁹ Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.^(Z)

¹⁰ Then the Lord said to Moses, ¹¹ “Go, tell^(AA) Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.”^(AB)

¹² But Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites will not listen^(AC) to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips^[c]?”^(AD)

Family Record of Moses and Aaron

¹³ Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.^(AE)

²⁶ It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring the Israelites out of Egypt^(BA) by their divisions.”^{(BB) 27} They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh^(BC) king of Egypt about bringing the Israelites out of Egypt—this same Moses and Aaron.^(BD)