Chapter 6
1But AO said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh for because of My mighty hand, he will let [the people] go, because of My strong hand, he will drive them out of his land.”
2God also told Moses, “I am AO.
3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as El-Shaddai but [by] My name, AO, I did not make Myself known to them.
4I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they have lived as foreigners.
5Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians are enslaving and I have remembered My covenant.
6Therefore, tell the Israelites: ‘I am AO and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
7I will take you as My own people and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am AO your God who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
8And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am AO!”
9Moses Aaron relayed this [message] to the Israelites but they did not listen to [him] on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage.
10So AO said to Moses,
11“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”
12But in AO’s presence, Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me since I am unskilled in speech?”
13Then AO spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
14These were the heads of their father’s houses: The sons of Reuben the first born of Israel, [were] Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.
15The sons of Simeon [were] Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.
16These were the names of the sons of Levi Ephraim according to their records: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi Ephraim lived 137 years.
17The sons of Gershon [were] Libni and Shimei by their clans.
18The sons of Kohath [were] Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.
19The sons of Merari [were] Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites Ephrathites according to their records.
20And Amram married Jochebed, his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
21The sons of Izhar [were] Korah, Nepheg and Zichri.
22The sons of Uzziel [were] Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri.
23And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
24The sons of Korah [were] Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These were the clans of the Korahites.
25Aaron’s son Eleazar married [one] of the daughters of Putiel and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite Ephrathites families by their clans.
26It was this Aaron and Moses to whom AO said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”
27Moses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
28Now on the day that AO spoke to Moses in Egypt,
29He said to him, “I am AO, tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, everything I say to you.”
30But in AO’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”