Chapter 5
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Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Lord, why have you brought harm to this people? Why did you send me?"
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Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, you have brought evil on this people, and you have not rescued your people.
Chapter 6
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he will send them out and with a strong hand he will drive them out from his land."
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God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am the LORD."
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And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.
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I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojourning places in which they sojourned.
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I have also heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians are causing to serve them, and I have remembered my covenant.
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Therefore say to the sons of Israel: I am the LORD, and I have brought you out from under the burdens of Egypt, and I have delivered you from their service, and I have redeemed you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
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And I will take you as my people, and I will be your God, and you will know that I am the LORD your God, the one who brings you out from under the burdens of Egypt.
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And I will bring you to the land that I raised my hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you as an inheritance; I am the LORD.
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And Moses spoke in this way to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses because of shortness of spirit and because of hard service.
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And the LORD said to Moses:
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Go in and speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he will send the sons of Israel out from his land.
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And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, "Behold, the sons of Israel did not listen to me, and how will Pharaoh listen to me? And I am uncircumcised of lips."