6:1  Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of his land."

6:2  God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am the LORD;

6:3  and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but {by} My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.

6:4  "I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.

6:5  "Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

6:6  "Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, `I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

6:7  `Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

6:8  `I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you {for} a possession; I am the LORD.'"

6:9  So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of {their} despondency and cruel bondage.

6:10  Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

6:11  "Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land."

6:12  But Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, "Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?"

6:13  Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

6:14  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.

6:15  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.

6:16  These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi's life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

6:17  The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

6:18  The sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the length of Kohath's life was one hundred and thirty-three years.

6:19  The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

6:20  Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram's life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

6:21  The sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri.

6:22  The sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri.

6:23  Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

6:24  The sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

6:25  Aaron's son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' {households} of the Levites according to their families.

6:26  It was {the same} Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, "Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts."

6:27  They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the sons of Israel from Egypt; it was {the same} Moses and Aaron.

6:28  Now it came about on the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

6:29  that the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "I am the LORD; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you."

6:30  But Moses said before the LORD, "Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?"