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Summary
Exodus 3:1 - 3:22

3:1. Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

3:2. The Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire, and was not burnt.

3:3. Moses said: I will go, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

'''3:4. When the Lord saw that he went forward to see, He called to him out of the midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses." And he answered, "Here I am."'''

3:5. He said, "Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy ground."

'''3:6. He said: I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God.'''

3:7. The Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigor of those who are over the works;

3:8. Knowing their sorrow, I have come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that flows with milk and honey, to the places of the Canaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

3:9. For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians.

3:10. But come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

3:11. Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

3:12. He said to him, "I will be with you; and this you shall have for a sign that I have sent you: when you shall have brought My people out of Egypt, you shall offer sacrifice to God upon this mountain."

3:13. Moses said to God, "Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' If they shall say to me, 'What is his name?' What shall I say to them?"

'''3:14. God said to Moses, "I AM WHO AM." He said, "Thus shall you say to the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, has sent me to you."'''

I am who am. . .That is, I am being itself, eternal, self-existent, independent, infinite; without beginning, end, or change; and the source of all other beings.

3:15. God said again to Moses, "Thus shall you say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has sent me to you; this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

3:16. "Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and you shall say to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying: Visiting I have visited you; and I have seen all that has befallen you in Egypt.

3:17. "I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction of Egypt, into the land of the Canaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that flows with milk and honey.

3:18: "They shall hear your voice; and you shall go in, you and the ancients of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews has called us; we will go three days' journey into the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord our God.

3:19. "But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a mighty hand.

3:20. "For I will stretch forth My hand, and will strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst of them: after these he will let you go.

3:21. "I will give favor to this people, in the sight of the Egyptians: and when you go forth, you shall not depart empty:

3:22. "But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her that is in her house, vessels of silver and of gold, and raiment: and you shall put them on your sons and daughters, and shall despoil Egypt."

Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, D.D. published by International Publishing Company, 1894