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Exodus 6:3-10 Modern English Version (MEV)

3. and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by My name, The Lord, I was not known to them.

4. I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they sojourned.

5. I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

6. “Therefore say to the children of Israel: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm and with great judgments.

7. And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

8. I will bring you into the land, which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you for a heritage. I am the Lord.’ ”

9. Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their anguish of spirit and for cruel ­bondage.

10. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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