“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.

Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”

“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”

What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.

Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?”

“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”