Exodus 5:22-Exodus 6:13 - Moses Complains To God
22 Moses went back to Jehovah and asked: Why have you brought this trouble on your people? Why did you send me? 23 Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak for you, he has treated your people cruelly, and you have done nothing at all to rescue your people.
1 Jehovah said to Moses: Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. I will show him my power. He will let my people go! I will show him my power, and he will throw them out of his country.
2 God spoke further to Moses and said to him: I am Jehovah. 3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name, Jehovah, I did not make myself known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as foreigners. 5 Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel. This is because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage. I have remembered my covenant.
6 Tell the sons of Israel: 'I am Jehovah. I will bring you out from under the oppression of the Egyptians. I will free you from slavery! I will rescue you with my powerful arm and with mighty acts of judgment.' 7 I will make you my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out from under the forced labor of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you to the land I solemnly swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as your own possession. I am Jehovah!' 9 Moses reported this to the Israelites. But they would not listen to him. For they were so discouraged by their backbreaking work.
10 Then Jehovah told Moses: 11 Demand that Pharaoh king of Egypt let the sons of Israel go.
12 But Moses replied: I am not a powerful speaker. If the sons of Israel will not listen to me, why should the king of Egypt? 13 Jehovah sent Aaron and Moses with a message for the sons of Israel and for the king. He also ordered Aaron and Moses to free the people from Egypt.