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6:1  Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.”
6:2  Then God spoke to Moses, and said to him, “I am the Lord,
6:3  and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by My name, The Lord, I was not known to them.
6:4  I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they sojourned.
6:5  I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.
6:6  “Therefore say to the children of Israel: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm and with great judgments.
6:7  And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
6:8  I will bring you into the land, which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you for a heritage. I am the Lord.’ ”
6:9  Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.
6:10  The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
6:11  “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the children of Israel go out of his land.”
6:12  Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “The children of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, as I am of uncircumcised lips?”
6:13  And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command for the children of Israel, and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
6:14  These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanok, Pallu, Hezron, and Karmi. These are the families of Reuben.
6:15  The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These are the families of Simeon.
6:16  These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven years.
6:17  The sons of Gershon: Libni, and Shimei, according to their families.
6:18  The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred and thirty-three years.
6:19  The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Levi according to their generations.
6:20  Now Amram married Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and thirty-seven years.
6:21  The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zikri.
6:22  The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
6:23  Aaron took to himself Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, to wife; and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
6:24  The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These are the families of the Korahites.
6:25  Eleazar, Aaron’s son, married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
6:26  It was that Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”
6:27  They are the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. It was that Moses and Aaron.
6:28  On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
6:29  the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the Lord. Speak to Pharaoh the king of Egypt all that I say to you.”
6:30  However, Moses said before the Lord, “Listen! I am unskilled in speech, so how will Pharaoh listen to me?”