⁷ And Yahweh said, “Surely I have seen the misery of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings. ⁸ And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from this land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites^[a] and the Hittites^[b] and the Amorites^[c] and the Perizzites^[d] and the Hivites^[e] and the Jebusites.^[f]