Exodus 3:1-10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Moses and the Burning Bush

3 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,^[a] the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb,^[b] the mountain of God.^{(A) 2} Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush.^(B) As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed. ³ So Moses thought, ‘I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up? ’

⁴ When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, ‘Moses, Moses! ’

‘Here I am,’ he answered.

⁵ ‘Do not come closer,’ he said. ‘Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.’^{(C) 6} Then he continued, ‘I am the God of your father,^[c] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’^(D) Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

⁷ Then the Lord said, ‘I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out^(E) because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings, ⁸ and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey^(F) – the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.^{(G) 9} So because the Israelites’ cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing^(H) them, ¹⁰ therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.’