Quotes About Authority

You shall not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, or you will die, for the LORDís anointing oil is on you.” So they did as Moses instructed.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.

You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.

He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.

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

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.

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”

And he is to put the woman under oath and say to her, ëIf no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husbandís authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse.

But if you have gone astray while under your husbandís authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husbandí—

This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husbandís authority,

But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.

Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Simeon,

Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,

and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.

So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.

Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.

And suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting.” So the three went out,

I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

So the anger of the LORD burned against them, and He departed.