The Lord further instructed Moses that he was the one selected to go to Pharaoh to tell him to let the Hebrew people go free. As you can expect, this did not sit well with Moses. He didn’t feel up to the task at all. “But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” The Lord replied: “ He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” (An interesting side note, the mountain was called Horeb on the eastern side, and Sinai on the western side. As we all know, Sinai is where Moses received the Ten Commandments.)
Moses then asked the Lord for a name, something akin to a holy seal by which the people would accept his mission; “Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”