And God answered Moses, saying, essentially, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. I’m going to plague the hell out of Pharaoh so bad he’ll wish his grandparents were never born.” Pharaoh would, God said, not only let the Hebrews go, but actively drive them out as fast as he possibly could.

To back up this claim, God recapped his history with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He further tried to build up some trust by revealing to Moses a secret he hadn’t told to any of them: His real name was Jehovah. We can only assume the only reason he had waited so long to tell anyone was because he was embarrassed by the name, but at any rate he finally decided to tell Moses. He went on to promise again that he would lead the Israelites out of bondage, and they would all live happily ever after in the land of Canaan.

And so Moses went back and told all of this to the Israelites. The Israelites, tired and cranky from a long day of brick-making and beating-taking were in no mood, and told him to get lost. So, God said to just go and talk to Pharaoh, and forget about the Israelites’ bad attitudes. Moses was nervous though, and asked why Pharaoh would ever listen to him with his “uncircumcised lips”, which is apparently a really disgusting euphemism for stuttering. Of course, that whole issue had already been dealt with when Aaron was hired as spokesman, but evidently they weren’t getting along at the time or something.

The rest of the chapter is a genealogy review of the families of Aaron and Moses, apparently given just in case people were confused as to which Aaron and Moses the story was about.