Reference

Exodus 3:4

And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
2

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.

3

And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

4

And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

5

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

6

Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

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Identity Blending

The immediate preceding verses (Exodus 3:2-3) explicitly state that it was the "angel of the Lord" who appeared to Moses in the flame of fire out of the midst of the bush. Therefore, when verse 4 states "the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush," it can be interpreted as the Angel of the Lord, who is a divine representative, speaking on behalf of or as God, rather than an outright identity blend where the Angel *is* God in the same sense as the F