Exodus 3:2 “There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from wit…”

Exodus 3:2

There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

World English Bible

The LORD’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

American Standard Version

And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him in a flame of fire, out of the middes of a bush: and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Darby Translation

And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thorn-bush: and he looked, and behold, the thorn-bush burned with fire, and the thorn-bush was not being consumed.

Young's Literal Translation

and there appeareth unto him a messenger of Jehovah in a flame of fire, out of the midst of the bush, and he seeth, and lo, the bush is burning with fire, and the bush is not consumed.

Bible in Basic English

And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up.

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Cross references

“angel”

Acts 7:30–35 Deuteronomy 33:16 Luke 20:37 Isaiah 63:9 Malachi 3:1 Genesis 16:7–13

Acts 7:30–35 · BSB

After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 33:16 · BSB

with the choice gifts of the land and everything in it, and with the favor of Him who dwelt in the burning bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph and crown the brow of the prince of his brothers.

Luke 20:37 · BSB

Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

Isaiah 63:9 · BSB

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Malachi 3:1 · BSB

“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of…

Genesis 16:7–13 · BSB

Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

“bush burned”

Isaiah 43:2 Psalm 66:12 Deuteronomy 4:20 Daniel 3:27 Genesis 15:13–17 Romans 8:3

Isaiah 43:2 · BSB

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

Psalm 66:12 · BSB

You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance.

Deuteronomy 4:20 · BSB

Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

Daniel 3:27 · BSB

and when the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers had gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men. Not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and t…

Genesis 15:13–17 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Romans 8:3 · BSB

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

Also

Mark 12:26 Exodus 3:16

Mark 12:26 · BSB

But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ ?

Exodus 3:16 · BSB

Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to yo…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

3So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”

Read Exodus 3