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Exodus 3:14

Chapter 3

Moses and the Burning Bush

1Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.2There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.3So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

4When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”

5“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”6Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

7The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.8So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.10So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

11But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

12And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, youThe Hebrew is plural. will worship God on this mountain.”

13Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

14God said to Moses, “I am who I am.Or I will be what I will be This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

15God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD,The Hebrew for LORD sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for I am in verse 14. the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.

16“Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.17And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

18“The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.’19But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him.20So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.

21“And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.22Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.”

Topics: God Jesus Christ is of names titles moses name who i he am iam jehovah

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Joseph36958 - (eBible Novice) about 1 year ago.

3:14 <0413> Mkyla <07971> ynxls <01961> hyha <03478> larvy <01121> ynbl <0559> rmat <03541> hk <0559> rmayw <01961> hyha <0834> rsa <01961> hyha <04872> hsm <0413> la <0430> Myhla <0559> rmayw (3:14)

mychainsaregone12 - (eBible Novice) about 1 year ago.

this passage is so revealing of GOD's nature. GOD tells Moses that HE is the I AM. those two words reveal the eternity and the self-existing power of GOD. GOD did say 'I was' nor did HE say 'I will be'--HE said "I AM" which implies that HE is eternal...HE never fades away. There is no beginning to GOD and no end. Like HE says in Revelation 1--I AM the Alpha and Omega-the Beginning and that End!

1stLady - (eBible Novice) about 1 year ago.

God letting us know who he said that he is.

jb212 - (eBible Novice) 10 months ago.

I AM. The ultimate positive affirmation. In Exodus 3:14 God referred to himself as "I AM." The Hebrew translation is YHWH and sounded like Yahweh. A close word connection is the Hebrew term "ehyeh" which can be translated as third-person form of the verb "to be." Some scholars believe that YHWH means "his is," "he will be" or "he cause to be." "I AM WHO I AM" or "I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE," was an assertion by God that YHWH is the one and only true God. Jesus uses this term many times in the Gospels. It is not unimportant to draw the conclusion that this is part of the LOGOS. That is, I AM expressed by the Word is fundamental to the order of the universe--which God created just by speaking. By speaking positive affirmations using the term "I am"…not as God would, but within the context of God's overall principles of the rules of the universe and harmonize the affirmation within the rationality of God's order.

Pearl_65 - (eBible Scholar) 4 months ago.

GOD: I AM -- The beginning and the end. Every knee will bow at the name of God. All the earth shall obey his commands.