^{7 Ref} And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

^{8 Ref} And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

^{9 Ref} For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.