Exodus 3:7-12 (Revised Standard Version)
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Then the LORD said, "I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings,
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and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites.
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And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
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Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt."
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But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?"
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He said, "But I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain."
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