¹Yahweh said to Moses, Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will let them go, and by a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.

²God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am Yahweh.

³I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name Yahweh I did not make myself known to them.

⁴I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they sojourned.

⁵I too have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom Egypt is forcing to work, and I have remembered my covenant.

⁶Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh; I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt, I will rescue you from their labor, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

⁷I will take you for myself as a people, and I will be God to you, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of Egypt.

⁸I will bring you into the land that I lifted my hand in oath to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession; I am Yahweh.

⁹And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of shortness of breath and harsh labor.

¹⁰And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

¹¹Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he sends the children of Israel out of his land.

¹²And Moses spoke before the face of Yahweh, saying, Look, the children of Israel have not listened to me; how will Pharaoh listen to me, when I am uncircumcised of lips?

¹³And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and commanded them regarding the children of Israel and regarding Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt.

¹⁴These are the heads of the house of their fathers. The children of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben.

¹⁵And the children of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of the Canaanite woman; these are the clans of Simeon.

¹⁶And these are the names of the children of Levi, by their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

¹⁷The children of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans.

¹⁸And the children of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred and thirty-three years.

¹⁹And the children of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their generations.

²⁰And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as a wife for himself, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

²¹And the children of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zikri.

²²And the children of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri.

²³And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as a wife for himself, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

²⁴And the children of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph — these are the families of the Korahites.

²⁵And Eleazar son of Aaron took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers of the Levites, by their families.

²⁶It was Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.

²⁷They were the ones speaking to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt; it was Moses and Aaron.

²⁸And it happened on the day Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

²⁹And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, I am Yahweh; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am speaking to you.

³⁰And Moses said before the face of Yahweh, Look, I am uncircumcised of lips; and how will Pharaoh listen to me?