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God Calls Moses

Meanwhile, Moses continued tending the sheep that belonged to his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the sheep to the western[a] desert and came to Horeb,[b] God’s mountain, where[c] the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flaming fire from the center of a bush. As Moses[d] continued to watch, amazingly the bush kept on burning, but was not consumed. Then Moses told himself,[e] “I’ll go over and see this remarkable[f] sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up?”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 3:1 Or the back part of the
  2. Exodus 3:1 I.e. Mt. Sinai, and so throughout the book
  3. Exodus 3:1 The Heb. lacks where
  4. Exodus 3:2 Lit. He
  5. Exodus 3:3 The Heb. lacks to himself
  6. Exodus 3:3 Or great