Quotes About Identity

Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,

A woman must not wear menís clothing, and a man must not wear womenís clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.

Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”

and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,

that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.