And I have said,.... Within himself, resolved in his own mind, and had declared it to Moses:I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt: with which they were afflicted in Egypt, and by the Egyptians; this he both purposed and promised to bring them out of: unto the land of the Canaanites, &c.
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Exodus 3:17
Exodus 3:17
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