I am the eternal God. So tell them that the Lord,^[a] whose name is “I Am,” has sent you. This is my name forever, and it is the name that people must use from now on.

¹⁶ Call together the leaders of Israel and tell them that the God who was worshiped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has appeared to you. Tell them I have seen how terribly they are being treated in Egypt, ¹⁷ and I promise to lead them out of their troubles. I will give them a land rich with milk and honey, where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.