Exodus 3 (NET)

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Exodus 3:1¹Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 19:8 Exod 17:6 Ps 78:70-72 Num 10:29 Exod 18:1-6 Judg 4:11 Mal 4:4 Amos 7:14-15 Deut 1:6 Deut 4:10

Exodus 3:2²The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked, and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:30-35 Isa 43:2 Deut 33:16 Mark 12:26 Luke 20:37 Ps 66:12 Exod 3:16 Isa 63:9 Mal 3:1 Dan 3:27

Exodus 3:3³So Moses thought, “I will turn aside to see this amazing sight. Why does the bush not burn up?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:31 Ps 107:8 Job 37:14 Ps 111:2-4

Exodus 3:4⁴When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 33:16 1 Sam 3:4 1 Sam 3:6 1 Sam 3:8 Acts 9:4 Gen 22:1 Gen 22:11 Gen 46:2 Acts 10:3 Ps 62:11

Exodus 3:5⁵God said, “Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 5:15 Acts 7:33 Exod 19:12 Eccl 5:1 Gen 28:16-17 Heb 12:20 Exod 19:21 Lev 10:3

Exodus 3:6⁶He added, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 20:37 Matt 22:32 Exod 4:5 Mark 12:26 Acts 7:32 Gen 28:13 Rev 1:17 1 Kgs 18:36 Isa 6:1-5 Jer 24:7

Exodus 3:7⁷The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 145:19 Ps 106:44 Exod 2:23-25 Ps 34:6 Exod 22:23 Neh 9:9 Gen 29:32 Exod 1:11 Isa 63:9 Ps 22:24

Exodus 3:8⁸I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 50:24 Exod 3:17 Gen 15:18-21 Deut 1:25 Exod 13:5 Deut 8:7-9 Jer 11:5 Num 13:27 Ezek 20:6 John 6:38

Exodus 3:9⁹And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 2:23 Prov 22:22-23 Exod 1:11 Exod 1:13-14 Exod 3:7 Exod 1:22 Eccl 4:1 Eccl 5:8 Jer 50:33-34 Mic 2:1-3

Exodus 3:10¹⁰So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 6:4 1 Sam 12:6 Isa 63:11-12 Ps 105:26 Acts 7:34 Hos 12:13 Ps 77:20 Acts 7:36 Ps 103:6-7

Exodus 3:11¹¹Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 18:18 Exod 6:12 2 Cor 3:5 Jer 1:6 2 Cor 2:16 1 Kgs 3:9 2 Sam 7:18 Exod 4:10-13 Isa 6:5-8 1 Kgs 3:7

Exodus 3:12¹²He replied, “Surely I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve God at this mountain.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 1:5 Rom 8:31 Deut 31:23 Isa 41:10 Exod 4:12 Exod 4:15 Gen 31:3 Matt 28:20 Isa 43:2 Acts 11:21

Exodus 3:13¹³Moses said to God, “If I go to the Israelites and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ —what should I say to them?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 9:6 Prov 30:4 Exod 3:14 Gen 32:29 Isa 7:14 Jer 23:6 Matt 1:21 Exod 15:3 Judg 13:17 Judg 13:6

Exodus 3:14¹⁴God said to Moses, “I AM that I AM.” And he said, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:58 Heb 13:8 Rev 1:8 Ps 90:2 Isa 44:6 Exod 6:3 Rev 1:4 Rev 1:17 Rev 4:8 2 Cor 1:20

Exodus 3:15¹⁵God also said to Moses, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘The Lord —the 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 from generation to generation.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 17:7-8 Heb 13:8 Hos 12:5 Mal 3:6 Exod 3:6 Mic 4:5 Isa 9:6 Ps 102:12 Ps 135:13 Acts 7:32

Exodus 3:16¹⁶“Go and bring together the elders of Israel and tell them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, appeared to me—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—saying, “I have attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 8:4 Exod 4:29 Exod 4:31 Gen 50:24 Acts 15:14 1 Pet 2:12 1 Pet 5:1 Acts 11:30 Acts 20:17 Exod 13:19

Exodus 3:17¹⁷and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 15:13-21 Exod 3:8-9 Gen 50:24 Exod 2:23-25 Gen 46:4 Josh 24:11

Exodus 3:18¹⁸“The elders will listen to you, and then you and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 9:1 Exod 7:16 Exod 10:24-26 Exod 10:3 Exod 9:13 Num 23:15-16 2 Chr 30:12 Exod 4:31-5:3 Josh 1:17 Num 17:4

Exodus 3:19¹⁹But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, not even under force.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 5:2 Exod 6:1 Exod 7:1-14 Isa 63:12-13 Ps 136:11-12

Exodus 3:20²⁰So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:36 Deut 6:22 Exod 9:15 Neh 9:10 Exod 6:6 Exod 12:31-33 Exod 11:8-9 Ps 105:27 Acts 7:1-13 Deut 4:34

Exodus 3:21²¹“I will grant this people favor with the Egyptians, so that when you depart you will not leave empty-handed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 12:36 Exod 11:3 Ps 105:37 Prov 16:7 Ps 106:46 Acts 7:10 Gen 39:21 Neh 1:11

Exodus 3:22²²Every woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying in her house for items of silver and gold and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters—thus you will plunder Egypt!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 11:2 Ezek 39:10 Exod 12:35-36 Gen 15:14 Ps 105:37 Job 27:16-17 Isa 33:1 Prov 13:22