¹³ Then behold, ^(A)the Lord was standing ^[a]above it and said, “I am the Lord, ^(B)the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give ^(C)to you and to ^(D)your ^[b]descendants.

¹⁶ Go and ^(A)gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘^(B)The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has appeared to me, saying, “^[a](C)I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.

⁵ “so that ^(A)they may believe that ^(B)the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

³² ‘^(A)I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

²⁶ But ^[a]regarding the fact that the dead rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, ^(A)in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘^(B)I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?