Quotes About Moses

Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

And as the sound of the ramís horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.

The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,

But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ëPut a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.í”

So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “This is what you are to tell the Israelites: ëYou have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.

Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.

Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God.

When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,

and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.

Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Then the LORD said to Moses,

And the LORD said to Moses,

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The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,

Then the LORD said to Moses,

And the LORD said to Moses,

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