Moses

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• Exodus 2:2

  She conceived and gave birth to a son and, seeing what a fine child he was, she kept him hidden for three months.

• Exodus 2:3

  When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him; coating it with bitumen and pitch, she put the child inside and laid it among the reeds at the River's edge.

• Exodus 2:10

  When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter who treated him like a son; she named him Moses 'because', she said, 'I drew him out of the water.'

• Exodus 2:11

  It happened one day, when Moses was grown up, that he went to see his kinsmen. While he was watching their forced labour he also saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen.

• Exodus 2:12

  Looking this way and that and seeing no one in sight, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

• Exodus 2:15

  When Pharaoh heard of the matter, he tried to put Moses to death, but Moses fled from Pharaoh. He went into Midianite territory and sat down beside a well.

• Exodus 2:21

  Moses agreed to stay on there with the man, who gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage.

• Exodus 2:22

  She gave birth to a son, whom he named Gershom 'because', he said, 'I am an alien in a foreign land.'

• Exodus 3:1

  Moses was looking after the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led it to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

• Exodus 3:4

  When Yahweh saw him going across to look, God called to him from the middle of the bush. 'Moses, Moses!' he said. 'Here I am,' he answered.

• Exodus 3:10

  So now I am sending you to Pharaoh, for you to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.'

• Exodus 3:14

  God said to Moses, 'I am he who is.' And he said, 'This is what you are to say to the Israelites, "I am has sent me to you." '

• Exodus 4:2

  Yahweh then said, 'What is that in your hand?' 'A staff,' he said.

• Exodus 4:14

  At this, Yahweh's anger kindled against Moses, and he said to him, 'There is your brother Aaron the Levite, is there not? I know that he is a good speaker. Here he comes to meet you. When he sees you, his heart will be full of joy.

• Exodus 4:20

  So Moses took his wife and his son and, putting them on a donkey, started back for Egypt; and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

• Exodus 4:31

  The people were convinced, and they rejoiced that Yahweh had visited the Israelites and seen their misery, and they bowed to the ground in worship.

• Exodus 5:1

  After this, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, 'This is what Yahweh, God of Israel, says, "Let my people go, so that they can hold a feast in my honour in the desert." '

• Exodus 5:4

  The king of Egypt said to them, 'Moses and Aaron, what do you mean by distracting the people from their work? Get back to your forced labour.'

• Exodus 5:22

  Moses went back to Yahweh and said, 'Lord, why do you treat this people so harshly? Why did you send me?

• Exodus 5:23

  Ever since I came to Pharaoh and spoke to him in your name, he has ill-treated this people, and you have done nothing at all about rescuing your people.'

• Exodus 11:3

  And Yahweh made the Egyptians impressed with the people, while Moses himself was a man of great importance in Egypt in the opinion of Pharaoh's officials and the people.

• Exodus 11:4

  Moses then said, 'Yahweh says this, "At midnight I shall pass through Egypt,

• Exodus 11:8

  Then all these officials of yours will come down to me and, bowing low before me, say: Go away, you and all the people who follow you! After which, I shall go." ' And, hot with anger, he left Pharaoh's presence.

• Exodus 11:10

  Moses and Aaron worked all these wonders in Pharaoh's presence, but Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites leave his country.

• Exodus 12:21

  Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, 'Go and choose a lamb or kid for your families, and kill the Passover victim.

• Exodus 12:31

  It was still dark when Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 'Up, leave my subjects, you and the Israelites! Go and worship Yahweh as you have asked!

• Exodus 12:50

  The Israelites all did as Yahweh had ordered Moses and Aaron,

• Exodus 13:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

• Exodus 13:3

  Moses said to the people, 'Remember this day, on which you came out of Egypt, from the place of slave-labour, for by the strength of his hand Yahweh brought you out of it; no leavened bread may be eaten.

• Exodus 13:19

  Moses took with him the bones of Joseph, since Joseph had put the Israelites on solemn oath with the words, 'It is sure that God will visit you,' he had said, 'and when that day comes you must take my bones away from here with you.'

• Exodus 14:13

  Moses said to the people, 'Do not be afraid! Stand firm, and you will see what Yahweh will do to rescue you today: the Egyptians you see today you will never see again.

• Exodus 14:21

  Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh drove the sea back with a strong easterly wind all night and made the sea into dry land. The waters were divided

• Exodus 14:31

  When Israel saw the mighty deed that Yahweh had performed against the Egyptians, the people revered Yahweh and put their faith in Yahweh and in Moses, his servant.

• Exodus 15:1

  It was then that Moses and the Israelites sang this song in Yahweh's honour: I shall sing to Yahweh, for he has covered himself in glory, horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.

• Exodus 15:22

  Moses led Israel away from the Sea of Reeds, and they entered the desert of Shur. They then travelled through the desert for three days without finding water.

• Exodus 15:25

  Moses appealed to Yahweh for help, and Yahweh showed him a piece of wood. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became sweet. There he laid down a statute and law for them and there he put them to the test. Then he said,

• Exodus 16:4

  Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Look, I shall rain down bread for you from the heavens. Each day the people must go out and collect their ration for the day; I propose to test them in this way to see whether they will follow my law or not.

• Exodus 16:15

  As soon as the Israelites saw this, they said to one another, 'What is that ?' not knowing what it was. 'That', Moses told them, 'is the food which Yahweh has given you to eat.

• Exodus 16:23

  Moses replied, 'This is what Yahweh said, "Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a Sabbath sacred to Yahweh. Bake what you want to bake, boil what you want to boil; put aside what is left over, to be kept for tomorrow."

• Exodus 16:33

  Moses then said to Aaron, 'Take a jar and in it put a full homer of manna and store it in Yahweh's presence, to be kept for your descendants.'

• Exodus 17:2

  The people took issue with Moses for this and said, 'Give us water to drink.' Moses replied, 'Why take issue with me? Why do you put Yahweh to the test?'

• Exodus 17:6

  I shall be waiting for you there on the rock (at Horeb). Strike the rock, and water will come out for the people to drink.' This was what Moses did, with the elders of Israel looking on.

• Exodus 17:9

  Moses said to Joshua, 'Pick some men and tomorrow morning go out and engage Amalek. I, for my part, shall take my stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.'

• Exodus 17:15

  Moses then built an altar and named it Yahweh-Nissi

• Exodus 18:7

  So Moses went out to greet his father-in-law, bowed low to him and kissed him; and when each had asked how the other was they went into the tent.

• Exodus 18:24

  Moses took his father-in-law's advice and did just as he said.

• Exodus 18:25

  Moses chose capable men from all Israel and put them in charge of the people as heads of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.

• Exodus 19:3

  Moses then went up to God, and Yahweh called to him from the mountain, saying, 'Say this to the House of Jacob! Tell the Israelites,

• Exodus 19:20

  Yahweh descended on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain; and Moses went up.

• Exodus 19:24

  Yahweh said, 'Away with you! Go down! Then come back bringing Aaron with you. But do not allow the priests and people to break through to come up to Yahweh, or he may burst out against them.'

• Exodus 20:19

  'Speak to us yourself,' they said to Moses, 'and we will obey; but do not let God speak to us, or we shall die.'

• Exodus 20:21

  So the people kept their distance while Moses approached the dark cloud where God was.

• Exodus 20:22

  Yahweh said to Moses, 'Tell the Israelites this, "You have seen for yourselves how I have spoken to you from heaven.

• Exodus 21:1

  'These are the laws you must give them:

• Exodus 22:1

  'If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck a mortal blow, his blood may not be avenged,

• Exodus 23:1

  'You will not spread false rumours. You will not lend support to the wicked by giving untrue evidence.

• Exodus 24:8

  Moses then took the blood and sprinkled it over the people, saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant which Yahweh has made with you, entailing all these stipulations.'

• Exodus 25:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

• Exodus 30:11

  Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said,

• Exodus 31:18

  When he had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

• Exodus 32:32

  And yet, if it pleased you to forgive their sin. . .! If not, please blot me out of the book you have written!'

• Exodus 33:22

  and when my glory passes by, I shall put you in a cleft of the rock and shield you with my hand until I have gone past.

• Exodus 34:4

  So he cut two tablets of stone like the first and, with the two tablets of stone in his hands, Moses went up Mount Sinai in the early morning as Yahweh had ordered.

• Exodus 34:29

  When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, as he was coming down the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face was radiant because he had been talking to him.

• Exodus 35:1

  Moses assembled the whole community of Israelites and said, 'These are the things Yahweh has ordered to be done:

• Exodus 35:30

  Moses then said to the Israelites, 'Look, Yahweh has singled out Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,