Quotes About Identity

Any children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.

When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”

Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”

And Joseph took both of them—with Ephraim in his right hand toward Israelís left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israelís right hand—and brought them close to him.

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraimís head, he was displeased and took his fatherís hand to move it from Ephraimís head to Manassehís.

“Not so, my father!” Joseph said. “This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.

Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”

Then his sister said to Pharaohís daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

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.”

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”

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

Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ëThe God of your fathers has sent me to you,í and they ask me, ëWhat is His name?í What should I tell them?”

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ëI AM has sent me to you.í”