3. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘the Lord’ I was not known to them.
4. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.
5. I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
6. Therefore, tell the Israelites, ‘I am the Lord. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
7. I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.
8. I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob – and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord!’”
9. Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.