Verse 8
Exodus 3:8
Free Bible Version
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That's why I have come down to rescue them from Egyptian oppression and to take them up from that country to a productive, wide-open land—a land flowing with milk and honey—where currently the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites are living.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וָ/אֵרֵ֞ד לְ/הַצִּיל֣/וֹ מִ/יַּ֣ד מִצְרַ֗יִם וּֽ/לְ/הַעֲלֹת/וֹ֮ מִן הָ/אָ֣רֶץ הַ/הִוא֒ אֶל אֶ֤רֶץ טוֹבָה֙ וּ/רְחָבָ֔ה אֶל אֶ֛רֶץ זָבַ֥ת חָלָ֖ב וּ/דְבָ֑שׁ אֶל מְק֤וֹם הַֽ/כְּנַעֲנִי֙ וְ/הַ֣/חִתִּ֔י וְ/הָֽ/אֱמֹרִי֙ וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י וְ/הַ/חִוִּ֖י וְ/הַ/יְבוּסִֽי
English Translation
And I will go down to save him from the hand of Egypt and to bring him up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
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