What is the content of Moses’ message to the elders?
Exodus 3:16 (ESV)
16Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,
It is exactly the same as God had said to Moses in Exodus 3:7–10. Just like all preachers, Moses has to preach God’s Word—not his own feelings about the burning bush or his religious experience.
16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,