4. When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, God called out to him from the bush: Moses! Moses! He answered, “Here I am.”
5. God said: Do not come near! Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
6. I am the God of your father, he continued, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
7. But the Lord said: I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry against their taskmasters, so I know well what they are suffering.
8. Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them up from that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.
9. Now indeed the outcry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen how the Egyptians are oppressing them.
10. Now, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.
11. But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”