So I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and have remembered my covenant.

Wherefore say thou unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the burdens of the Egyptians, and will deliver you out of their bondage, and will redeem you in a stretched out arm, and in great [a]judgments.

Also I will [b]take you for my people, and will be your God: then ye shall know that I the Lord your God bring you out from the burdens of the Egyptians.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 6:6 Or, plagues.
  2. Exodus 6:7 He meaneth, as touching the outward vocation, the dignity whereof they lost afterward by their rebellion: but as for election to life everlasting, it is immutable.

Moreover, I have heard the groaning(A) of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.(B)

“Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.(C) I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem(D) you with an outstretched arm(E) and with mighty acts of judgment.(F) I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God.(G) Then you will know(H) that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

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