3:1Now Moses was pasturing the sheep of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and when he had driven the flock to the inner parts of the desert, he came to the mountain of God, Horeb. 3:2And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the middle of a bush: and he saw that the bush was burning, and was not being burnt up. 3:3So Moses said: "I will go, and I will see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt up." 3:4But the Lord, seeing that he was going on to look, called him from the middle of the bush, and said: "Moses, Moses."
3:4He answered: "I am here." 3:5But he: "Do not come near here," he said: "loose the shoe from your feet: for the place in which you stand is holy ground." 3:6And he said: "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." 3:6Moses hid his face: for he did not dare to look towards God. 3:7To him the Lord said: "I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard its shout because of the harshness of those who are in charge of the works: and knowing its pain, I have come down to free it from the hands of the Egyptians, and to lead it out from that land into a land good and spacious, into a land which flows with milk and honey, to the places of the Canaanite and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
3:9So the shout of the sons of Israel has come to me: and I have seen their affliction, with which they are oppressed by the Egyptians. 3:10But come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may lead my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt." 3:11And Moses said to God: "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and lead the sons of Israel out of Egypt?" 3:12He said to him: "I will be with you: and you will have this sign, that I have sent you: when you have led my people out of Egypt, you will offer sacrifice to God upon this mountain."
3:13Moses says to God: "Look, I will go to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them: 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' 3:13If they say to me: 'What is his name?' 3:13what shall I say to them?" 3:14God said to Moses: "I am who am." 3:14He says: "Thus you will say to the sons of Israel: 'He who is has sent me to you.'" 3:15And God said again to Moses: "These things you will say to the sons of Israel: 'The Lord, 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 for ever, and this is my memorial for generation and generation.
3:16Go, and gather the elders of Israel, and you will say to them: 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, saying: "Visiting, I have visited you: and I have seen all the things that have happened to you in Egypt. 3:17And I have said that I will lead you out of the affliction of Egypt into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."' 3:18And they will hear your voice: and you will go in, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you will say to him: 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has called us: we will go a journey of three days into the wilderness, so that we may offer sacrifice to the Lord our God.' 3:19But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, so that you may go, except by a strong hand.
3:20For I will stretch out my hand, and I will strike Egypt with all my wonders, which I am going to do in the middle of them: after these things he will let you go. 3:21And I will give favour to this people before the Egyptians: and when you go out, you will not go out empty: but a woman will ask of her neighbour and of her hostess vessels of silver and of gold, and garments: and you will put them upon your sons and daughters, and you will plunder Egypt."