2 For ver. 2-10, see Acts 7:30-35And Isa. 63:9the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
7 Then the Lord said, ch. 2:23-25;Neh. 9:9;Ps. 106:44"I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their ch. 5:13,14taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and Gen. 11:5,7;18:21I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and ch. 6:6;12:51;[Gen. 50:24] to bring them up out of that land to a Deut. 1:25;8:7,8,9good and broad land, a land ch. 13:5;33:3;Lev. 20:24;Num. 13:27;Deut. 26:9,15;Jer. 11:5;32:22;Ezek. 20:6flowing with milk and honey, to the place of Gen. 15:18-21the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
14 God said to Moses, "I am who I am."3:14 Or I am what I am, or I will be what I will be And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel: ch. 6:3;Ps. 68:4;John 8:58;Heb. 13:8;Rev. 1:4;4:8‘I am has sent me to you.’"