1. And Moses was a shepherd with the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west of the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.
2. And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush, and he looked, and there was the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not being consumed.
3. And Moses said, “Let me turn aside and see this great sight. Why does the bush not burn up?”
4. And Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him from the midst of the bush, and he said, “Moses, Moses.” And he said, “Here I am.”
5. And he said, “You must not come near to here. Take off your sandals from on your feet, because the place on which you are standing, it is holy ground.”