Exodus 3:7-10

The Burning Bush

⁷ Then the Lord said, _e "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their _f taskmasters. I know their sufferings, ⁸ and _g I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and _h to bring them up out of that land to a _i good and broad land, a land _j flowing with milk and honey, to the place of _k the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ⁹ And now, behold, _l the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the _m oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. ¹⁰ _n Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

1. Cross References
   Exodus 2:23 - 25
   During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
   Nehemiah 9:9
   And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.
   Psalms 106:44
   Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
   
2. Cross References
   Exodus 5:13 - 14
   The taskmasters were urgent, saying, "Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 11:5
   And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
   Genesis 11:7
   Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.
   Genesis 18:21
   I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know.
   
4. Cross References
   Exodus 6:6
   Say therefore to the people of Israel, 'I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
   Exodus 12:51
   And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
   Genesis 50:24
   And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
   
5. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 1:25
   And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, 'It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.
   Deuteronomy 8:7 - 8
   For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills.
   Deuteronomy 8:9
   A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
   
6. Cross References
   Exodus 13:5
   And when the Lord brings you into the land of t...
   Exodus 33:3
   Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; bu...
   Leviticus 20:24
   But I have said to you, 'You shall inherit thei...
   Numbers 13:27
   And they told him, "We came to the land to whic...
   Deuteronomy 26:9
   And he brought us into this place and gave us t...
   Deuteronomy 26:15
   Look down from your holy habitation, from heave...
   Jeremiah 11:5
   That I may confirm the oath that I swore to you...
   Jeremiah 32:22
   And you gave them this land, which you swore to...
   Ezekiel 20:6
   On that day I swore to them that I would bring ...
   
7. Cross References
   Genesis 15:18 - 21
   On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
   
8. Cross References
   Exodus 2:23
   During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
   
9. Cross References
   Exodus 1:11 - 14
   Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
   Exodus 1:22
   Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.
   
10. Cross References
    Psalms 105:26
    He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
    Micah 6:4
    For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.