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?”
12. God answered: I will be with you; and this will be your sign that I have sent you. When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will serve God at this mountain.
13. “But,” said Moses to God, “if I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what do I tell them?”
14. God replied to Moses: I am who I am. Then he added: This is what you will tell the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.
15. God spoke further to Moses: This is what you will say to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.This is my name forever;this is my title for all generations.