Exodus 3:16
14 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.’”
15 God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, 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, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction 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 what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
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- BSB
- Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
- KJV
- Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
- WEB
- Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.
- ASV
- Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and [seen] that which is done to you in Egypt:
- DARBY
- Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying, I have indeed visited you, and [seen] that which is done unto you in Egypt;
- BLB
- Go and gather together the elders of Israel, and say to them, ‘YHWH, the God of your⁺ fathers, has appeared to me—the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob—saying: I have surely attended to you⁺ and what is being done to you⁺ in Egypt.
- ÅB
- Gå nå og kall sammen de eldste i Israel og si til dem: Herren, deres fedres Gud, har åpenbart seg for meg, Abrahams, Isaks og Jakobs Gud, og sagt: Jeg har sett til dere og vet hvordan de farer fram mot dere i Egypt.
- OTB
- «Gå, samle Israels eldste og si til dem: ‘Herren, deres fedres Gud—Abrahams, Isaks og Jakobs Gud—har vist seg for meg og sagt: Jeg har våket over dere og sett hva som er blitt gjort mot dere i Egypt.
- B1930
- Gå nu og kall sammen de eldste i Israel og si til dem: Herren, eders fedres Gud, har åpenbaret sig for mig, Abrahams, Isaks og Jakobs Gud, og sagt: Jeg har sett til eder og vet hvorledes de farer frem mot eder i Egypten.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 8:4
what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
Read in contextExodus 4:31
and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
Read in contextExodus 4:29
Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites,
Read in contextGenesis 50:24
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Read in contextActs 15:14
Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
Read in contextExodus 3:2
There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
Read in contextExodus 4:5
“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
Read in contextLuke 19:44
They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
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