Exodus 3

umosheh hayah ro'eh et-tson yitro khoteno kohen midyan vayyinhag et-hatson akhar hammidbar vayyavo el-har ha'elohim khorevah

Now Moses, tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, drove the flock into the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

vayyera malakh Adonai elayw belabbat-esh mittokh hasseneh vayyar vehinneh hasseneh bo'er ba'esh vehasseneh enennu ukkal

An angel of GOD appeared to him in a blazing fire out of a bush. He gazed, and there was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed.

vayyomer mosheh asurah-nna ve'ereh et-hammareh haggadol hazzeh maddua lo-yivar hasseneh

Moses said, “I must turn aside to look at this marvelous sight; why doesn’t the bush burn up?”

vayyar Adonai ki sar lirot vayyiqra elayw elohim mittokh hasseneh vayyomer mosheh mosheh vayyomer hinneni

When GOD saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him out of the bush: “Moses! Moses!” He answered, “Here I am.”

vayyomer al-tiqrav halom shal-ne'alekha me'al raglekha ki hammaqom asher attah omed alayw admat-qodesh hu

And [God] said, “Do not come closer! Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground!”

vayyomer anokhi elohe avikha elohe avraham elohe yitskhaq velohe ya'aqov vayyaster mosheh panayw ki yare mehabbit el-ha'elohim

and continued, “I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

vayyomer Adonai ra'oh ra'iti et-oni ammi asher bemitsrayim ve'et-tsa'aqatam shamati mippene nogesayw ki yadati et-makhovayw

And GOD continued, “I have marked well the plight of My people in Egypt and have heeded their outcry because of their taskmasters; yes, I am mindful of their sufferings.

va'ered lehatsilo miyyad mitsrayim uleha'aloto min-ha'arets hahiv el-erets tovah urekhavah el-erets zavat khalav udevash el-meqom hakkena'ani vehakhitti veha'emori vehapperizzi vehakhivvi vehayevusi

I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the region of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

ve'attah hinneh tsa'aqat bene-yisra'el ba'ah elay vegam-ra'iti et-hallakhats asher mitsrayim lokhatsim otam

Now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me; moreover, I have seen how the Egyptians oppress them.

ve'attah lekhah ve'eshlakhakha el-paroh vehotse et-ammi vene-yisra'el mimmitsrayim

Come, therefore, I will send you to Pharaoh, and you shall free My people, the Israelites, from Egypt.”

vayyomer mosheh el-ha'elohim mi anokhi ki elekh el-paroh vekhi otsi et-bene yisra'el mimmitsrayim

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and free the Israelites from Egypt?”

vayyomer ki-ehyeh immakh vezeh-llekha ha'ot ki anokhi shelakhtikha behotsi'akha et-ha'am mimmitsrayim ta'avdun et-ha'elohim al hahar hazzeh

“I will be with you; that shall be your sign that it was I who sent you. And when you have freed the people from Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.”

vayyomer mosheh el-ha'elohim hinneh anokhi va el-bene yisra'el ve'amarti lahem elohe avotekhem shelakhani alekhem ve'ameru-li mah-shemo mah omar alehem

Moses said to God, “When I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘By which name?’ what shall I say to them?”

vayyomer elohim el-mosheh ehyeh asher ehyeh vayyomer koh tomar livne yisra'el ehyeh shelakhani alekhem

And God said to Moses, “Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh,” continuing, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites, ‘Ehyeh sent me to you.’”

vayyomer od elohim el-mosheh koh-tomar el-bene yisra'el Adonai elohe avotekhem elohe avraham elohe yitskhaq velohe ya'aqov shelakhani alekhem zeh-shemi le'olam vezeh zikhri ledor dor

And God said further to Moses, “Thus shall you speak to the Israelites: GOD [יהוה], the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you: This shall be My name forever, This My appellation for all eternity.

lekh ve'asafta et-ziqne yisra'el ve'amarta alehem Adonai elohe avotekhem nirah elay elohe avraham yitskhaq veya'aqov lemor paqod paqadti etkhem ve'et-he'asuy lakhem bemitsrayim

“Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: The ETERNAL, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said, ‘I have taken note of you and of what is being done to you in Egypt,

va'omar a'aleh etkhem me'oni mitsrayim el-erets hakkena'ani vehakhitti veha'emori vehapperizzi vehakhivvi vehayevusi el-erets zavat khalav udevash

and I have declared: I will take you out of the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.’

veshame'u leqolekha uvata attah veziqne yisra'el el-melekh mitsrayim va'amartem elayw Adonai elohe ha'ivriyyim niqrah alenu ve'attah nelekhah-nna derekh sheloshet yamim bammidbar venizbekhah la-Adonai elohenu

They will listen to you; then you shall go with the elders of Israel to the king of Egypt and you shall say to him, ‘The ETERNAL, the God of the Hebrews, became manifest to us. Now therefore, let us go a distance of three days into the wilderness to sacrifice to the ETERNAL our God.’

va'ani yadati ki lo-yitten etkhem melekh mitsrayim lahalokh velo beyad khazaqah

Yet I know that the king of Egypt will let you go only because of a greater might.

veshalakhti et-yadi vehikketi et-mitsrayim bekhol nifle'otay asher e'eseh beqirbo ve'akhare-khen yeshallakh etkhem

So I will stretch out My hand and smite Egypt with various wonders that I will work upon them; after that he shall let you go.

venatatti et-khen ha'am-hazzeh be'ene mitsrayim vehayah ki telekhun lo telekhu reqam

And I will dispose the Egyptians favorably toward this people, so that when you go, you will not go away empty-handed.

vesha'alah isha mishekhentah umiggarat betah kele-khesef ukhele zahav usemalot vesamtem al-benekhem ve'al-benotekhem venitsaltem et-mitsrayim

Each woman shall borrow from her neighbor and the lodger in her house objects of silver and gold, and clothing, and you shall put these on your sons and daughters, thus stripping the Egyptians.”