Chapter 6

3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them. [Exo 6:3 ESV]

"God Almighty" is El Shaddai.  LORD is Jehovah, Yahweh, YHWH.  And let's not forget that when Moses asked God who He was, he answered "Hayah, Hayah", which has many meanings.  Or is Yahweh a different spelling of Hayah? 

God is going to reveal himself to Moses and the people in a way He has never done before.  They will have a more personal relationship with the Lord than their ancestors did.

2021 - God tells Moses he will bring Israel out with a strong hand.  God repeats all the covenant promises.  He tells them what he is going to do to Pharoah, that he will deliver them, and that he will bring them into Canaan and give that to them.  Faith is needed.  God is telling them, and they have no faith in Him, they just don't believe the promises.  They have no experience of any of Egypt's gods keeling any promises, and they just cannot make that jump.  On top of that, the people still won't believe, because their bondage has broken their spirit.  This verse:

9 Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery. [Exo 6:9 ESV]  They had a long history of cruel oppression.  We have already seen that their slavery was not ordinary, but cruel, harsh, and designed to reduce their population.

These people have been so beaten down for so many generations that they have no courage or ambition to be free men again.  Men, women and children treated as expendable labor.  Donkeys and oxen probably were treated as well or better than these people.  With enough generations of this treatment - that was all most of them had ever known - it wouldn't even occur to them that they might be free.

Then we break off into some genealogy information.  This is good to note because when the duties and responsibilities of each tribe are set up later, these names will be prominent.

We find out here that Amram, Moses father, married his father's sister, that is, his aunt, and she bore Aaron and Moses. 

Aaron's sons are Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.  Eleazar's son is Phineas. 

2021 - Look how Chapter 6 ends:

30 But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?" [Exo 6:30 ESV]  This is the second time Moses has used this phrase.  He balked about coming back to Egypt at all, he balked at being the spokesman, and now, after things have gotten started, he is still trying to put an end to his service to God as a primary spokesman.  It is not just the people who need to see the power of God in order to truly believe.  It is almost like Moses really doesn't believe that God can do this either.  He is really not committed or convinced at all.  Moses too had grown up in Egypt, and his experience of gods was just like those he'd been sent to lead.  So perhaps this is the reason for the 10 plagues, the reason things drag out, and in fact get worse before they get better.  Not only the Egyptians, not only Pharoah, but all the people, right up to Moses and Aaron, need irrefutable evidence that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was not like ANY other god, anywhere, ever.