The Covenant Remembered

1Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he will let them go, and by a strong hand he will drive them out from his land.”

2God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am Yahweh.”

3And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name, Yahweh, I was not known to them.

4I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as sojourners.

5And I also have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

6Therefore say to the sons of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt, and I will deliver you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.’

7And I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of Egypt.

8And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh.