1. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you are going to see what I will do to the king. I will force him to let my people go. In fact, I will force him to drive them out of his land.”
2. God spoke to Moses and said, “I am the Lord.
3. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as Almighty God, but I did not make myself known to them by my holy name, the Lord.: See 3.14.
4. I also made my covenant with them, promising to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they had lived as foreigners.
5. Now I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and I have remembered my covenant.