God repeats some promises to Moses about his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and explains he has heard the children of Israel’s outcry and will keep his promises. He tells Moses they knew him as God Almighty but he did not tell them his name. Here is a link to a Read the Bible bonus feature on The LORD that I mention in the discussion.
Exodus 6
Then the LORD said to Moses “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh: for by my strong hand he will let them go, and because of my strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
2 God spoke to Moses and said to him “I am the LORD.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name YHWH I was not known to them.
4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.
5 I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
6 Therefore say to the children of Israel: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgments.
7 I will take you as my people, and I will be to you a God: and you will know that I am the LORD your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’”
9 Moses told the children of Israel: but they did not listen to Moses of their broken spirits and forced labor.
10 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying
11 “Go in and speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.”
12 Moses spoke before the Lord, saying “Look, the children of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me when I am such a poor speaker?”
13 The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command concerning the children of Israel and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
14 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these are the families of Reuben.
15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman: these are the families of Simeon.
16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, Kohath, Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were 137 years.
17 The sons of Gershon; Libni and Shimi, according to their families.
18 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were 133 years.
19 The sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
20 Amram married Jochebed, his father’s sister; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were 137 years.
21 The sons of Izhar; Korah, Nepheg and Zichri.
22 The sons of Uzziel; Mishael, Elzaphan and Zithri.
23 Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon; and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.
25 Aaron’s son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel; and she bore him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
26 It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”
27 These are the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: that Moses and Aaron.
28 On the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
29 He spoke to Moses, saying “I am the LORD: speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I have said to you.”
30 And Moses said before the Lord “I am an unskilled speaker; why would Pharaoh listen to me?
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