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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 3 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Exodus 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/2.htm" title="Exodus 2">◄</a> Exodus 3 <a href="../exodus/4.htm" title="Exodus 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Burning Bush</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>God said to Moses, “<span class="divine-name">I am who I am</span>.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or I am what I am, or I will be what I will be">a</a></sup></span> And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘<span class="divine-name">I am</span> has sent me to you.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The word LORD, when spelled with capital letters, stands for the divine name, YHWH, which is here connected with the verb hayah, to be in verse 14">b</a></sup></span> the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew go, not by a mighty hand">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i><span class="divine-name"><span class="catch-word">I am</span> what I am</span></i>, or <i><span class="divine-name"><span class="catch-word">I</span> will be what I will be</span></i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> The word <i><span class="divine-name">Lord</span></i>, when spelled with capital letters, stands for the divine name, <i>YHWH</i>, which is here connected with the verb <i>hayah</i>, "to be" in verse 14<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">go</span>, not by a mighty hand</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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