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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 6 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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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/6.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/6-1.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 6</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/5.htm" title="Exodus 5">◄</a> Exodus 6 <a href="../exodus/7.htm" title="Exodus 7">►</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/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">God Promises Deliverance</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew El Shaddai">a</a></sup></span> but by my name the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> I did not make myself known to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But Moses said to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.</p> <p class="heading">The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the clans of Simeon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being 137 years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, the years of the life of Kohath being 133 years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their generations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the clans of the Korahites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said: “Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>On the day when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But Moses said to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?”</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">3</span> Hebrew <i language="Hebrew">El Shaddai</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. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. All rights reserved.<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) is adapted from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. 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