Charles Ellicott Commentary Exodus 3:17

"and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey." — Exodus 3:17 (ASV)

I have said. —See Exodus 3:8. Perhaps there is also a reference to the promise made to Abraham (Genesis 15:14).

The affliction of Egypt. —Compare to Genesis 15:13; Exodus 1:11–12; Exodus 3:7.