Quotes About Obedience

Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.

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.)

And Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and all the signs He had commanded him to perform.

and Aaron relayed everything the LORD had said to Moses. And Moses performed the signs before the people,

After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëLet My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.í”

But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

So the LORD said to Moses,

“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”

But in the LORDís presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”

Now on the day that the LORD spoke to Moses in Egypt,

He said to him, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”

So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

“When Pharaoh tells you, ëPerform a miracle,í you are to say to Aaron, ëTake your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,í and it will become a serpent.”

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

Still, Pharaohís heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.

Then say to him, ëThe LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not listened until now.

Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron raised the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was turned to blood.

Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ëLet My people go, so that they may worship Me.

When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, and when Pharaoh goes out to the water, stand before him and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ëLet My people go, so that they may worship Me.