1Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he will let them go, and by a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
2And God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am Yahweh.”
3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as El Shaddai, but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
4And I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they sojourned.
5And I also have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
6Therefore say to the sons of Israel, “I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
7And I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be God to you; and you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh.””
9So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses because of their crushed spirit and their hard slavery.
10Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
11“Go, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.”
12But Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Look, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am uncircumcised of lips?”
13So Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron and gave them a command concerning the sons of Israel and concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
14These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These are the clans of Reuben.
15And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar, and Shaul the son of the Canaanite woman. These are the clans of Simeon.
16And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were 137 years.
17The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their clans.
18And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were 133 years.
19And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their generations.
20And Amram took Jochebed his aunt as his wife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were 137 years.
21And the sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri.
22And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri.
23And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, as his wife, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
24And the sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph. These are the clans of the Korahites.
25And Eleazar the son of Aaron took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites, according to their clans.
26This is the Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, “Bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”
27These are the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt—this is the Moses and Aaron.
28And it happened on the day Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
29that Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “I am Yahweh; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am speaking to you.”
30But Moses said before Yahweh, “Look, I am uncircumcised of lips; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?”
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