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Book of Exodus, Chapter 3

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Chapter 3 of Exodus—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ And Moses became a shepherd of the flock of Jethʹro,1 the priest of Midʹi·an, whose son-in-law he was.[a]2 While he was driving the flock to the west side of the wilderness, he came at length to the mountain of the [true] God,3 to Hoʹreb.4
  2. Then Jehovah’s[b] angel appeared to him in a flame of fire in the midst of a thornbush.5 As he kept looking, why, here the thornbush was burning with the fire and yet the thornbush was not consumed.
  3. At this Moses said: “Let me just turn aside that I may inspect this great phenomenon, as to why the thornbush is not burnt up.”6
  4. When Jehovah[c] saw that he turned aside to inspect, God at once called to him out of the midst of the thornbush and said: “Moses! Moses!” to which he said: “Here I am.”7
  5. Then he said: “Do not come near here. Draw your sandals from off your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.”8
  6. ¶ And he went on to say: “I am the God of your father,[d] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.”9 Then Moses concealed his face, because he was afraid to look at the [true] God.[e]
  7. And Jehovah added: “Unquestionably I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their outcry as a result of those who drive them to work; because I well know the pains they suffer.10
  8. And I am proceeding to go down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians11 and to bring them up out of that land to a land good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey,12 to the locality of the Caʹnaan·ites and the Hitʹtites and the Amʹor·ites and the Perʹiz·zites and the Hiʹvites and the Jebʹu·sites.13
  9. And now, look! the outcry of the sons of Israel has come to me, and I have seen also the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.14
  10. And now come and let me send you to Pharʹaoh, and you bring my people the sons of Israel out of Egypt.”15
  11. ¶ However, Moses said to the [true] God: “Who am I that I should go to Pharʹaoh and that I have to bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”16
  12. To this he said: “Because I shall prove to be with you,17 and this is the sign for you that it is I who have sent you:18 After you have brought the people out of Egypt, YOU people will serve[f] the [true] God on this mountain.”19
  13. ¶ Nevertheless, Moses said to the [true] God: “Suppose I am now come to the sons of Israel and I do say to them, ‘The God of YOUR forefathers has sent me to YOU,’ and they do say to me, ‘What is his name?’20 What shall I say to them?”
  14. At this God said to Moses: “I SHALL PROVE TO BE WHAT I SHALL PROVE TO BE.”[g]21 And he added: “This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, ‘I SHALL PROVE TO BE has sent me to YOU.’”22
  15. Then God said once more to Moses:
    ¶ “This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, ‘Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers, the God of Abraham,23 the God of Isaac24 and the God of Jacob,25 has sent me to YOU.’ This is my name to time indefinite,[h]26 and this is the memorial of me[i] to generation after generation.27
  16. You go, and you must gather the older men[j] of Israel, and you must say to them, ‘Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers has appeared to me,28 the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying: “I will without fail give attention29 to YOU and to what is being done to YOU in Egypt.
  17. And so I say, I shall bring YOU up out of affliction30 by the Egyptians to the land of the Caʹnaan·ites and the Hitʹtites and the Amʹor·ites31 and the Perʹiz·zites and the Hiʹvites and the Jebʹu·sites,32 to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’33
  18. ¶ “And they will certainly listen to your voice,34 and you must come, you and the older men of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and YOU men must say to him, ‘Jehovah the God of the Hebrews35 has come in touch with us,36 and now we want to go, please, a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we want to sacrifice to Jehovah our God.’37
  19. And I, even I, well know that the king of Egypt will not give YOU permission to go except by a strong hand.38
  20. And I shall have to stretch out my hand39 and strike Egypt with all my wonderful acts that I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will send YOU out.40
  21. And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians; and it will certainly occur that when YOU go, YOU will not go empty-handed.41
  22. And each woman must ask from her neighbor and from the woman residing as an alien in her house articles of silver and articles of gold and mantles, and YOU must put them upon YOUR sons and YOUR daughters; and YOU must strip the Egyptians.”42

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “Jethro, . . . his father-in-law.”
  2. ^ Heb., Yeho·wahʹ. See App 1A.
  3. ^ “God,” Sam; that is, Jehovah’s angel who spoke for Him. See vs 2.
  4. ^ “Father,” MLXXSyVg; Sam, “fathers.”
  5. ^ See App 1F.
  6. ^ “You people will serve (worship).” Heb., ta·ʽav·dhunʹ; Gr., la·treuʹse·te, “you will render sacred service.” See KB, p. 671, for the rendering “worship a god.” See also Mt 4:10 ftn, “Service.”
  7. ^ “I SHALL PROVE TO BE WHAT I SHALL PROVE TO BE.” Heb., אֶהְיֶֽה אֲשֶֽׁר אֶהְיֶֽה (ʼEh·yehʹ ʼAsherʹ ʼEh·yehʹ), God’s own self-designation; Leeser, “I WILL BE THAT I WILL BE”; Rotherham, “I Will Become whatsoever I please.” Gr., E·goʹ ei·mi ho on, “I am The Being,” or, “I am The Existing One”; Lat., eʹgo sum qui sum, “I am Who I am.” ʼEh·yehʹ comes from the Heb. verb ha·yahʹ, “become; prove to be.” Here ʼEh·yehʹ is in the imperfect state, first person sing., meaning “I shall become”; or, “I shall prove to be.” The reference here is not to God’s self-existence but to what he has in mind to become toward others. Compare Ge 2:4 ftn, “Jehovah,” where the kindred, but different, Heb. verb ha·wahʹ appears in the divine name.
  8. ^ “My name to time indefinite.” Heb., shemiʹ leʽo·lamʹ.
  9. ^ “The memorial of me.” Heb., zikh·riʹ; Lat., me·mo·ri·aʹle meʹum.
  10. ^ Or, “elders.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ex 2:16; 18:1
  2. ^ Jg 1:16; 4:11
  3. ^ Ex 24:13
  4. ^ Ex 17:6; 1Ki 19:8; Ml 4:4
  5. ^ De 33:16; Ac 7:30
  6. ^ Ge 18:14; Da 3:27; Ac 7:31
  7. ^ 1Sa 3:4
  8. ^ Jos 5:15; Ac 7:33
  9. ^ Ge 26:24; 32:9; Mt 22:32; Ac 7:32
  10. ^ Ex 1:11; 6:5; Ps 106:44; Is 63:9; Ac 7:34
  11. ^ Ex 12:51
  12. ^ Nu 13:27; De 27:3
  13. ^ Ge 10:16; Ex 33:2; De 7:1; Jos 3:10; Ne 9:8
  14. ^ Ex 1:11
  15. ^ 1Sa 12:6; Ps 105:26; Is 63:11; Ac 7:34
  16. ^ Ex 6:12; 2Sa 7:18; Je 1:6
  17. ^ De 31:23; Jos 1:5; Is 41:10; Ro 8:31; Pp 4:13
  18. ^ Jg 6:17
  19. ^ Ex 19:2; De 4:11
  20. ^ Ex 15:3; 1Sa 17:45; Ps 96:8; 135:13; Ho 12:5; Mt 21:9; Jn 17:26; Ro 10:13
  21. ^ Le 11:45; Jb 23:13; Is 14:27; Da 4:35; Jn 12:28
  22. ^ Ex 6:3, 7; Ro 9:17
  23. ^ Ge 17:7; Mt 22:32
  24. ^ Ge 26:24
  25. ^ Ge 28:13
  26. ^ Ps 135:13
  27. ^ Ps 30:4; 102:12; Ho 12:5
  28. ^ Ge 17:1; 48:15
  29. ^ Ge 50:24; Ex 13:19; Ps 80:14; Lu 1:68
  30. ^ Ge 15:13; Le 26:13; Ne 9:9; Ac 7:34
  31. ^ Ge 15:16
  32. ^ Ex 23:23
  33. ^ Nu 13:27; De 8:7
  34. ^ Ex 4:31; 20:19
  35. ^ Ge 14:13; 40:15; Ex 10:3
  36. ^ Ex 5:3
  37. ^ Ex 7:16; 8:27; 10:26
  38. ^ Ex 5:2; 7:4; 14:8; Ro 9:17
  39. ^ Ps 118:15
  40. ^ Ex 7:3; 12:33; De 6:22; Ps 135:9; Ac 7:36
  41. ^ Ex 11:2; 12:35
  42. ^ Ge 15:14; Ex 12:36; Ps 105:37

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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