4 I also made my covenant with them, promising to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they had lived as foreigners.
5 Now I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and I have remembered my covenant.
6 So tell the Israelites that I say to them, ‘I am the Lord; I will rescue you and set you free from your slavery to the Egyptians. I will raise my mighty arm to bring terrible punishment upon them, and I will save you.
7 I will make you my own people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the Lord your God when I set you free from slavery in Egypt.
8 I will bring you to the land that I solemnly promised to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as your own possession. I am the Lord.’ ”
9 Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to him, because their spirit had been broken by their cruel slavery.
10 Then the Lord said to Moses,