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.
6. I am the God who was worshipped by your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”Moses was afraid to look at God, and so he hid his face.
7. The Lord said:I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt, and I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being ill-treated. I feel sorry for them,
8. and I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians.I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
9. My people have begged for my help, and I have seen how cruel the Egyptians are to them.