² And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am ^[a]the Lord. ^3 (A)I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as ^(B)God Almighty, but by My name ^(C)Lord^[b] I was not known to them. ^4 (D)I have also ^[c]established My covenant with them, ^(E)to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their ^[d]pilgrimage, ^(F)in which they were ^[e]strangers. ⁵ And ^(G)I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. ⁶ Therefore say to the children of Israel: ^(H)‘I am the Lord; ^(I)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will ^(J)rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with ^[f]an outstretched arm and with great judgments. ⁷ I will ^(K)take you as My people, and ^(L)I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out ^(M)from under the burdens of the Egyptians. ⁸ And I will bring you into the land which I ^(N)swore^[g] to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the Lord.’ ” ⁹ So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; ^(O)but they did not heed Moses, because of ^(P)anguish^[h] of spirit and cruel bondage.

¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹ “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the children of Israel go out of his land.”

¹² And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “The children of Israel have not heeded me. How then shall Pharaoh heed me, for ^(Q)I am ^[i]of uncircumcised lips?”

¹³ Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a ^(R)command^[j] for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

The Family of Moses and Aaron^(S)

¹⁴ These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: ^(T)The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben. ^15 (U)And the sons of Simeon were ^[k]Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These are the families of Simeon. ¹⁶ These are the names of ^(V)the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven. ^17 (W)The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimi according to their families. ¹⁸ And ^(X)the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred and thirty-three. ^19 (Y)The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Levi according to their generations.

²⁰ Now ^(Z)Amram took for himself ^(AA)Jochebed, his father’s sister, as wife; and she bore him ^(AB)Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and thirty-seven. ^21 (AC)The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. ²² And ^(AD)the sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Zithri. ²³ Aaron took to himself Elisheba, daughter of ^(AE)Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, as wife; and she bore him ^(AF)Nadab, Abihu, ^(AG)Eleazar, and Ithamar. ²⁴ And ^(AH)the sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These are the families of the Korahites. ²⁵ Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and ^(AI)she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

²⁶ These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their ^(AJ)armies.”^{[l] 27} These are the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, ^(AK)to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are the same Moses and Aaron.

Aaron Is Moses’ Spokesman

²⁸ And it came to pass, on the day the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, ²⁹ that the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the Lord. ^(AL)Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.”

³⁰ But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, ^(AM)I am ^[m]of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh heed me?”

Moses Before Pharaoh

7 So the Lord said to Moses: “See, I have made you ^(AN)as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be ^(AO)your prophet. ² You ^(AP)shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land. ³ And ^(AQ)I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and ^(AR)multiply My ^(AS)signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴ But ^(AT)Pharaoh will not heed you, so ^(AU)that I may lay My hand on Egypt and bring My ^[n]armies and My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt ^(AV)by great judgments. ⁵ And the Egyptians ^(AW)shall know that I am the Lord, when I ^(AX)stretch out My hand on Egypt and ^(AY)bring out the children of Israel from among them.”

⁶ Then Moses and Aaron ^(AZ)did so; just as the Lord commanded them, so they did. ⁷ And Moses was ^(BA)eighty years old and ^(BB)Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Death of the Firstborn Announced^(A)

11 And the Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. ^(B)Afterward he will let you go from here. ^(C)When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out of here altogether. ² Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let every man ask from his neighbor and every woman from her neighbor, ^(D)articles of silver and articles of gold.” ^3 (E)And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man ^(F)Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.

⁴ Then Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ^(G)‘About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt;

³⁵ Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians ^(A)articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.

^36 (A)And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they requested. Thus ^(B)they plundered the Egyptians.