Quotes About Obedience

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.

For the Israelites are My servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherdís rod will be holy to the LORD.

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:

For the LORD had said to Moses:

Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.

Thus the Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

But the Levites were not counted among the other Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

So the Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; they camped under their standards in this way and set out in the same way, each man with his clan and his family.

Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he had been commanded.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.