Quotes About Growth

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

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.

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.”

For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,

I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.

Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.

A bud was under the first pair of branches that extended from the lampstand, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third pair.

When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.

For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.

From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.

Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.

Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

They set out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.

“You have been wandering around this hill country long enough; turn to the north