Exodus Exodus 6:1-30
Moses had thrown the accusation in God's face — 'you have not delivered your people at all.' God answers with the same verb and seven first-person promises, and at their center stands a word never before spoken by God of himself: 'I will redeem you.'
Exodus Exodus 5:1-23
Pharaoh answers the demand with a question — 'Who is YHWH that I should obey his voice? I do not know YHWH.' The whole plague cycle is the answer to that question, and this chapter ends not in rescue but in bricks without straw and a prophet's complaint.
Exodus Exodus 4:1-31
Moses fears the people will not believe him; the chapter ends with the words 'the people believed.' Between those poles God names Israel his firstborn son and arms the exodus with a threat that will fall on every Egyptian household.
Exodus Exodus 3:1-22
Moses asks two questions at the burning bush - 'Who am I?' and 'What is his name?' - and God answers both with one Hebrew word in two forms: ehyeh, the promise of presence that becomes the name above every name.
Exodus Exodus 2:1-25
Pharaoh decreed the Nile for every Hebrew son. A Levite mother answered with a tevah - the one word that, in all the Hebrew Bible, names only Noah's ark and Moses' basket: the seed of deliverance carried safely through the very waters meant to destroy it.