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15 God also said to Mo ses , “ Say to the Is ra el ites , ‘ The Lord , a the God of your fa thers — the God of Abra ham , the God of Isaac and the God of Ja cob — has sent me to you .’
“ This is my name forever , the name you shall call me from generation to generation .
16 “ Go , as sem ble the el ders of Is rael and say to them , ‘ The Lord , the God of your fa thers — the God of Abra ham , Isaac and Ja cob — ap peared to me and said : I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt . 17 And I have prom ised to bring you up out of your mis ery in Egypt into the land of the Ca naan ites , Hit tites , Am o rites , Per iz zites ,
Hi vites and Jeb u sites — a land flow ing with milk and honey .’
18 “ The el ders of Is rael will lis ten to you . Then you and the el ders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him , ‘ The Lord , the God of the He brews , has met with us . Let us take a threeday jour ney into the wil der ness to of fer sac ri fices to the Lord our God .’ 19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand com pels him . 20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyp tians with all the won ders that I will per form among them . Af ter that , he will let you go .
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15 The Hebrew for Lord sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for I am in verse 14 .