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What does Exodus 3:2 mean?

"Yahweh’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."

— Exodus 3:2 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.

2

Yahweh’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.

3

Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

4

When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”

5

He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”

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