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Yahweh Discusses His Name and Israel's Future

¹ And Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, because with a strong hand he will release them, and with a strong hand he will drive them out from his land."

² And God spoke to Moses, and he said to him, "I am Yahweh. ³ And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Shaddai,^[a] but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them. ⁴ And I not only established my covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they dwelt as aliens, ⁵ but also I myself heard the groaning of the Israelites,^[b] whom the Egyptians are making to work, and I remembered my covenant. ⁶ Therefore say to the Israelites,^[c] ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the forced labor^[d] of Egypt, and I will deliver you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great punishments. ⁷ And I will take you as my people,^[e] and I will be your God,^[f] and you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the forced labor^[g] of Egypt. ⁸ And I will bring you to the land that I swore^[h] to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh."

⁹ And Moses spoke thus to the Israelites,^[i] but they did not listen to Moses, because of discouragement^[j] and because of hard work.

¹⁰ And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹ "Go, speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and let him release the Israelites^[k] from his land." ¹² And Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Look, the Israelites^[l] do not listen to me, and how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am a poor speaker?"^{[m] 13} And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and he commanded them to go to the Israelites^[n] and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites^[o] out from the land of Egypt.

The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron

¹⁴ These are the heads of their families.^[p]

The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, are Enoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These are the clans of Reuben.

¹⁵ And the sons of Simeon are Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shaul the son of the Canaanitess.^[q] These are the clans of Simeon.

¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies:^[r] Gershon and Kohath and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven years.^[s]

¹⁷ The sons of Gershon are Libni and Shimei according to their clans.

¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath are Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel, and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred and thirty-three years.^[t]

¹⁹ And the sons of Merari are Mahli and Mushi. These are clans of the Levites according to their genealogies.^[u]

²⁰ And Amram took Jochebed his aunt for himself as a wife, and she bore for him Aaron and Moses, and the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and thirty-seven years.^[v]

²¹ And the sons of Izhar are Korah and Nepheg and Zikri.

²² And the sons of Uzziel are Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri.

²³ And Aaron took Elisheba the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, for himself as a wife, and she bore for him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

²⁴ And the sons of Korah are Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph. These are the clans of the Korahites.

²⁵ And Eleazar the son of Aaron took for himself one from the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore for him Phinehas. These are the heads of the families^[w] of the Levites according to their clans.

²⁶ It was that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, "Bring the Israelites^[x] out from the land of Egypt according to their divisions." ²⁷ They were those who spoke to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, in order to bring the Israelites^[y] out from Egypt. It was that Moses and Aaron.

²⁸ And so it was on a certain day^[z] Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt. ²⁹ And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "I am Yahweh. Speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, all that I am speaking to you." ³⁰ And Moses said before Yahweh, "Look, I am a poor speaker.^[aa] And how will Pharaoh listen to me?"