Quotes About Sacred

Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacobís hip was struck near that tendon.

However, he did not acquire the priestsí portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.

And Joseph took both of them—with Ephraim in his right hand toward Israelís left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israelís right hand—and brought them close to him.

“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

And Amram married his fatherís sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”

And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes

And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ëBe careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.í Only when the ramís horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”

When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ëPut a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.í”

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

And you must not go up to My altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.í

You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.

You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israelís elders—and you are to worship at a distance.

Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”