1. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for compelled by my strong hand he will release them, and by my strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
2. God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.
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.