1. One day, Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and Moses decided to lead them across the desert to Sinai, the holy mountain.
2. There an angel of the Lord appeared to him from a burning bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire, but it was not burning up.
3. “This is strange!” he said to himself. “I'll go over and see why the bush isn't burning up.”
4. When the Lord saw Moses coming near the bush, he called him by name, and Moses answered, “Here I am.”
5. God replied, “Don't come any closer. Take off your sandals—the ground where you are standing is holy.