7. I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
8. And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.” ’
9. Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labour.
10. Then the Lord said to Moses,
11. ‘Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.’