6. Here is my message for Israel: “I am the Lord! And with my mighty power I will punish the Egyptians and free you from slavery.
7. I will accept you as my people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I was the one who rescued you from the Egyptians.
8. I will bring you into the land that I solemnly promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and it will be yours. I am the Lord!”
9. When Moses told this to the Israelites, they were too discouraged and ill-treated to believe him.
10. Then the Lord told Moses
11. to demand that the king of Egypt let the Israelites leave.
12. But Moses replied, “I'm not a powerful speaker. If the Israelites won't listen to me, why should the king of Egypt?”
13. But the Lord sent Aaron and Moses with a message for the Israelites and for the king; he also ordered Aaron and Moses to free the people from Egypt.