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While Moses is tending the flock of Jethro, he comes to Horeb, the mountain of God. The Lord appears to him in a burning bush. "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." (Exodus 3:5 NIV)
God tells Moses that he is the god of Israel and would send Moses to Pharaoh to deliver the Israelites out of Egypt. When Moses asks God whom he should say has sent him, God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I am has sent me to you.'" (Exodus 3:14 NIV)
God promises to deliver Israel into "a land flowing with milk and honey" and tells Moses that the Israelites will listen to him, but Egypt will refuse to let them go.
PEOPLE: Moses - Jethro - Angel of the Lord - יהוה YHVH (I AM) God - children of Israel - Egyptians - Canaanites - Hittites - Amorites - Perizzites - Hivites - Jebusites
PLACES: Midian - Horeb - Egypt
RELATED ARTICLES: Shemot (parsha) - Names of God - Names of God in Judaism
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