Yahweh Discusses His Name and Israel’s Future

6 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,[fn] 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,[fn] whom the Egyptians are making to work, and I remembered my covenant. 6 Therefore say to the Israelites,[fn] ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the forced labor[fn] 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,[fn] and I will be your God,[fn] and you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the forced labor[fn] of Egypt. 8 And I will bring you to the land that I swore[fn] 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,[fn] but they did not listen to Moses, because of discouragement[fn] 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[fn] from his land.” 12 And Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Look, the Israelites[fn] do not listen to me, and how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am a poor speaker?”[fn] 13 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and he commanded them to go to the Israelites[fn] and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites[fn] out from the land of Egypt.