Quotes About Family

When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaohís daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their fatherís flock.

When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.

So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her sonís foreskin, and touched it to Mosesí feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)

The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.

These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.

The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.

The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.

And Amram married his fatherís sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.

The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.

And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the clans of the Korahites.

Aaronís son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families by their clans.

“We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”

Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

And on that day you are to explain to your son, ëThis is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.í