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God said to Moses, "Now you'll see what I'll do to Pharaoh: With a strong hand he'll send them out free; with a strong hand he'll drive them out of his land."
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God continued speaking to Moses, reassuring him, "I am God.
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I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as The Strong God, but by my name God (I-Am-Present) I was not known to them.
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I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the country in which they lived as sojourners.
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But now I've heard the groanings of the Israelites whom the Egyptians continue to enslave and I've remembered my covenant.