⁸ So I have come down^(A) to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land,^(B) a land flowing with milk and honey^(C)—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites^(D) and Jebusites.^(E)

³ (The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed^(A) toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded^(B) in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.)

¹⁸ So God led^(A) the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea.^[a] The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.^(B)

³⁴ I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’^[a](A)

³⁵ “This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’^(B) He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶ He led them out of Egypt^(C) and performed wonders and signs^(D) in Egypt, at the Red Sea^(E) and for forty years in the wilderness.^(F)