21 And Moses pleased to dwell with this man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah in marriage to Moses.

22 And she [conceived and] bore a son, and [Moses] called his name Gersham, because, he said, I have become a stranger in a strange land. [And when she conceived again, she bore another son, and he called his name Eliezer, saying, 'The God of my father was my helper, and delivered me out of the hand of Pharaoh.]

23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel groaned because of their work, and cried out, and their cry from their work went up to God.

24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob.

25 And God saw the children of Israel, and God looked upon them.

Chapter 3

1 And Moses tended the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. Once he led the flock far into the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

2 And an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a thorn bush. And he saw that the thorn bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not burned.

3 And Moses said, "I will go and see this great manifestation, wherefore the bush is not burned."

4 And the Lord saw that he was coming to look, and God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses! And he said, Here am I, [Lord]!

5 And God said, 'Do not come hither; Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.

6 And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses covered his face because he was afraid to look upon God.

7 And the Lord said [to Moses], 'I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry from their stewards; I know his sorrows

8 And I am going to deliver him out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring him out of this land, into a good and spacious land, flowing with milk and honey, into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.