A reading from the book of Exodus,

Mosines, hearing the voice of the Lord from the burning bush, said to him,

When I go to the children of Israel and say to them,

The God of your fathers has sent me to you,

If they ask me, what is his name? What am I to tell you?

God replied, I am who am. Then he added, this is what you shall tell the children

of Israel. I am, sent me to you. God spoke further to Moses. Thus shall you say to the children of

Israel, the Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent

me to you.

This is my name forever.

This is my title for all generations.

Go and assemble the elders of Israel and tell them, the Lord, the God of your fathers,

the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said,

I am concerned about you and about your way you are being treated in Egypt.

So I've decided to lead you up out of the misery of Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites,

Hittites, Amorites, Prezites, Hivites, and gibberishites, the land flowing with milk and honey.

Thus they will heed your message, then you and the elders of Israel shall go to the King of Egypt and say to him,

the Lord, the God of the Hebrews has sent us word. Permit us then to go a three-day journey in the desert,

that we may offer sacrifice to the Lord our God.

Yet I know the King of Egypt will not allow you to go unless he is forced.

I will stretch out my hand, therefore,

and smite Egypt by doing kinds of wondrous deeds there after he will send you.

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