Daily Bible CEV May 18 Verses

God Speaks to Moses

Exodus 3 One day, Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and Moses decided to lead them across the desert to Sinai, the holy mountain. ²There an angel of the LORD appeared to him from a burning bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire, but it was not burning up. ³"This is strange!" he said to himself. "I'll go over and see why the bush isn't burning up."

⁴When the LORD saw Moses coming near the bush, he called him by name, and Moses answered, "Here I am."

⁵God replied, "Don't come any closer. Take off your sandals--the ground where you are standing is holy. ⁶I am the God who was worshiped by your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Moses was afraid to look at God, and so he hid his face.

⁷The LORD said:

I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt, and I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them, ⁸and I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians.

I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. ⁹My people have begged for my help, and I have seen how cruel the Egyptians are to them. ¹⁰Now go to the king! I am sending you to lead my people out of his country.

¹¹But Moses said, "Who am I to go to the king and lead your people out of Egypt?"

¹²God replied, "I will be with you. And you will know that I am the one who sent you, when you worship me on this mountain after you have led my people out of Egypt."

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