1. The Lord answered Moses: Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. For by a strong hand, he will let them go; by a strong hand, he will drive them from his land.
2. Then God spoke to Moses, and said to him: I am the Lord.
3. As God the Almighty I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but by my name, Lord, I did not make myself known to them.
4. I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they were residing as aliens.
5. Now that I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians have reduced to slavery, I am mindful of my covenant.