15 July 2021, General Week 15 - Thursday FIRST READING "He who sent me to you is: I-AM" A Reading from the book of Exodus 3, 13-20

15 July 2021, General Week 15 - Thursday 

FIRST READING 

"He who sent me to you is: I-AM"  

A Reading from the book of Exodus 3, 13-20 

In those days

Moses had heard the voice of the Lord

from the bush.

    He answered God,

"So I will go and find the children of Israel, and I will say to them,

'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.'

They will ask me what his name is;

what will I answer them? "

    God said to Moses,

" I am who I am.

You will speak thus to the children of Israel:

“He who sent me to you is, I-AM.” "

    God said to Moses,

" You shall tell the son of Israel:

"He who sent me to you,

it's THE LORD,

the God of your fathers,

the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac , the God of Jacob. ”

This is my name forever,

it is through him that you will remember me from age to age.

    Go, gather the elders of Israel. You will say to them,

“The Lord, the God of your fathers,

the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has

appeared to me.

He said to me:

I visited you and thus I saw

how you are treated in Egypt.

    I said: I will bring you up out

of the misery which oppresses you in Egypt

to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite,

the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivvite, and the Jebusite,

the land flowing with milk and honey. ”

    They will listen to your voice;

then you will go, with the elders of Israel,

to the king of Egypt, and say to him,

“The Lord, the God of the Hebrews,

has come to find us.

And now let us go

into the wilderness, three days away,

to offer a sacrifice to the Lord our God. ”

    Now, I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go

if he is not forced to.

    So

I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all kinds of wonders

which I will do in the midst of it.

After that he will let you go. " 

            - Word of the Lord.