1Then the
2God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the
3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘the
4I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.
5I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
6Therefore, tell the Israelites, ‘I am the
7I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the
8I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob – and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the
9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.
10Then the
11“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”
12But Moses replied to the
13The
The Ancestry of the Deliverer
14These are the heads of their fathers’ households:
The sons of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.
15The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.
16Now these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (The length of Levi’s life was 137 years.)
17The sons of Gershon, by their families, were Libni and Shimei.
18The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. (The length of Kohath’s life was 133 years.)
19The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of Levi, according to their records.
20Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. (The length of Amram’s life was 137 years.)
21The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zikri.
22The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
23Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
24The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans.
25Now Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel and she bore him Phinehas.
These are the heads of the fathers’ households of Levi according to their clans.
26It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom the
27They were the men who were speaking to Pharaoh king of Egypt, in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. It was the same Moses and Aaron.
The Authentication of the Word
28When the
29he said to him, “I am the
30But Moses said before the