Quotes About Identity

And the LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.

Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ëIsrael is My firstborn son,

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.)

God also told Moses, “I am the LORD.

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.

I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.

I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

These were the heads of their fathersí houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.

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

“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORDís Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.í These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Make holy garments for your brother Aaron, to give him glory and splendor.

Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:

six of their names on one stone and the remaining six on the other, in the order of their birth.

Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.

The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.

Make tunics, sashes, and headbands for Aaronís sons, to give them glory and splendor.