In their own words — 2791 recorded sayings
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“And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother?”— Moses, Exodus 2:13
“And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.”— Moses, Exodus 2:14
“And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.”— Moses, Exodus 2:22
“And Moses said, I will go and see this strange thing, why the tree is not burned up,”— Moses, Exodus 3:3
“And when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see, God said his name out of the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.”— Moses, Exodus 3:4
“And Moses said to God, Who am I to go to Pharaoh and take the children of Israel out of Egypt?”— Moses, Exodus 3:11
“And Moses said to God, When I come to the children of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you: and they say to me, What is his name? what am I to say to them?”— Moses, Exodus 3:13
“And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord.”— Moses, Exodus 4:1
“And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.”— Moses, Exodus 4:2
“And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.”— Moses, Exodus 4:10
“And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send.”— Moses, Exodus 4:13
“And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.”— Moses, Exodus 4:18
“And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me? For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words before him, he has done evil to this people, and you have given them no help.”— Moses, Exodus 5:22-23
“And Moses, answering the Lord, said, See, the children of Israel will not give ear to me; how then will Pharaoh give ear to me, whose lips are unclean?”— Moses, Exodus 6:12
“And Moses said to the Lord, My lips are unclean; how is it possible that Pharaoh will give me a hearing?”— Moses, Exodus 6:30
“And Moses said, I will let you have the honour of saying when I am to make prayer for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs may be sent away from you and your houses, and be only in the Nile.”— Moses, Exodus 8:9
“And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you say: so that you may see that there is no other like the Lord our God. And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people and will be only in the Nile.”— Moses, Exodus 8:10-11
“And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make our offerings of that to which the Egyptians give worship; and if we do so before their eyes, certainly we will be stoned. But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.”— Moses, Exodus 8:26-27
“And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making their offering to the Lord.”— Moses, Exodus 8:29
“And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's. But as for you and your servants, I am certain that even now the fear of the Lord God will not be in your hearts.”— Moses, Exodus 9:29-30
“And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord.”— Moses, Exodus 10:9
“But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the Lord our God. So our cattle will have to go with us, not one may be kept back; for they are needed for the worship of the Lord our God; we have no knowledge what offering we have to give till we come to the place.”— Moses, Exodus 10:25-26
“And Moses said, You say truly; I will not see your face again.”— Moses, Exodus 10:29
“And Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the middle of the night I will go out through Egypt: And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle. And there will be a great cry through all the land of Egypt, such as never has been or will be again. But against the children of Israel, man or beast, not so much as the tongue of a dog will be moved: so that you may see how the Lord makes a division between Israel and the…”— Moses, Exodus 11:4-8
“Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death. And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his house till the morning. For the Lord will go through the land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will not let death come in for your destruction. And…”— Moses, Exodus 12:21-27
“And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his hand the Lord has taken you out from this place; let no leavened bread be used. On this day, in the month Abib, you are going out. And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month. For seven days…”— Moses, Exodus 13:3-16
“But Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear; now you will see the salvation of the Lord which he will give you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again. The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet.”— Moses, Exodus 14:13-14
“Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea. The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory. The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea. They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under…”— Moses, Exodus 15:1-18
“And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord. And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel, Come near before the Lord for he has given ear to your outcry.”— Moses, Exodus 16:8-9
“And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food. This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family.”— Moses, Exodus 16:15-16
“And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the morning.”— Moses, Exodus 16:19
“And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning.”— Moses, Exodus 16:23
“And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields. For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”— Moses, Exodus 16:25-26
“And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt. And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations.”— Moses, Exodus 16:32-33
“So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?”— Moses, Exodus 17:2
“And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.”— Moses, Exodus 17:4
“And Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men for us and go out, make war on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.”— Moses, Exodus 17:9
“For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.”— Moses, Exodus 17:16
“And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land: And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and kept me safe from the sword of Pharaoh:”— Moses, Exodus 18:3-4
“And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God: And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.”— Moses, Exodus 18:15-16
Speaker attribution: Clear Bible MACULA (CC BY 4.0). Wording: Bible in Basic English (public domain).