2 Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. 3:2 Dt 33:16; Ac 7:30 As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.
7 Then the Lord said, "I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out 3:7 Ex 2:23–25; Neh 9:9; Ps 106:44 because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey 3:8 Gn 50:24; Ex 6:6 — the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 3:8 Gn 15:18–21; Ex 3:17; 13:5; Dt 1:25; Jr 11:5; Ezk 20:6
14 God replied to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. 3:14 OrI AM BECAUSE I AM, or I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE, 3:14 Ex 6:3; Ps 68:4; Jn 8:58; Heb 13:8; Rv 1:4; 4:8 This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you."