^{4 Ref} When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am."

^{5 Ref} He said, "Don't come close. Take off your sandals from off your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."

^{6 Ref} Moreover 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 was afraid to look at God.

^{7 Ref} Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

^{8 Ref} I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

^{9 Ref} Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

^{10 Ref} Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."