1. And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he cast them out of his land.
2. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord,
3. That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty; and my name ADONAI I did not shew them.
4. And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.
5. I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, wherewith the Egyptians have oppressed them: and I have remembered my covenant.