## Yahweh Remembers His Covenant ###### 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will let them go, and by a strong hand he will drive them out of his land." ###### 2 God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am Yahweh; ###### 3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but _by_ My name, Yahweh, I was not known to them. ###### 4 And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned. ###### 5 Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel because the Egyptians are holding them in slavery, and I have remembered My covenant. ###### 6 Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, 'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the hard labors of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their slavery. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. ###### 7 Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the hard labors of the Egyptians. ###### 8 And I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you _for_ a possession; I am Yahweh.'" ###### 9 So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of _their_ weakness of spirit and hard slavery. ###### 10 Now Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ###### 11 "Come, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land." ###### 12 But Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?" ###### 13 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron and gave them a command for the sons of Israel and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt. ## The Heads of Israel's Households ###### 14 These are the heads of their fathers' households. The sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben. ###### 15 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon. ###### 16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the years of Levi's life were 137 years. ###### 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. ###### 18 The sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the years of Kohath's life were 133 years. ###### 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. ###### 20 And Amram took his father's sister Jochebed as a wife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the years of Amram's life were 137 years. ###### 21 The sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri. ###### 22 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. ###### 23 And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as a wife, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ###### 24 The sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. ###### 25 And Aaron's son Eleazar took one of the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' _households_ of the Levites according to their families. ###### 26 It was _the same_ Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, "Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts." ###### 27 They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt; it was _the same_ Moses and Aaron. ## Aaron Will Speak for Moses ###### 28 Now it happened on the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, ###### 29 that Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "I am Yahweh; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am speaking to you." ###### 30 But Moses said before Yahweh, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?"