rsv Exodus:6:1-14
rsv@Exodus:6:1 @ But the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, yea, with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land."
rsv@Exodus:6:2 @ And God said to Moses, "I am the LORD.
rsv@Exodus:6:3 @ I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.
rsv@Exodus:6:4 @ I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they dwelt as sojourners.
rsv@Exodus:6:5 @ Moreover I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold in bondage and I have remembered my covenant.
rsv@Exodus:6:6 @ Say therefore to the people of Israel, `I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment,
rsv@Exodus:6:7 @ and I will take you for my people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
rsv@Exodus:6:8 @ And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.'"
rsv@Exodus:6:9 @ Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel bondage.
rsv@Exodus:6:10 @ And the LORD said to Moses,
rsv@Exodus:6:11 @ "Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land."
rsv@Exodus:6:12 @ But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am a man of uncircumcised lips?"
rsv@Exodus:6:13 @ But the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a charge to the people of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
rsv@Exodus:6:14 @ These are the heads of their fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben, the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.