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.
10. Then the Lord said to Moses,
11. “Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”