⁷ Now ^(A)the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to ^(B)Shur. ⁸ He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave woman, ^(C)from where have you come, and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” ⁹ So the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit ^[a]to her authority.” ¹⁰ The ^(D)angel of the Lord also said to her, “^(E)I will greatly multiply your ^[b]descendants so that ^[c]they will be too many to count.” ¹¹ The angel of the Lord said to her further,

¹⁷ God ^(A)heard the boy crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “^[a]What is the matter with you, Hagar? ^(B)Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

¹¹ But ^(A)the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

¹⁵ Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

⁴ When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, ^(A)God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” ⁵ Then He said, “Do not come near here; ^(B)remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” ⁶ And He said, “^(C)I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” ^(D)Then Moses hid his face, for he was ^(E)afraid to look at God.

⁷ And the Lord said, “I have certainly ^(F)seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their outcry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. ⁸ So I have come down ^(G)to rescue them from the ^[a]power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a ^(H)good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of ^(I)the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ⁹ And now, behold, ^(J)the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

The Mission of Moses

¹⁰ And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, ^(K)so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.” ¹¹ But Moses said to God, “^(L)Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”