Quotes About People

Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased.

Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ëGive us meat to eat!í

And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ëWho will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!í Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.

And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

From there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”

and Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous. Indeed, Moab dreaded the Israelites.

he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt,” said Balak. “They cover the face of the land and have settled next to me.

So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”

ëBehold, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.í”

But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!í”

For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.

Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

So Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORDís vengeance on them.

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

and 16,000 people, including a tribute to the LORD of 32.

and 16,000 people.

(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.

They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.