FAVORITE PASSAGES
I AM WHO I AM
Then
Moses said to God, "Behold, I am going to the
sons of Israel, and I will say to them, 'The God of
your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may say
to me, 'What is His name?' What shall I say to them?"
God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM"; and He said,
"Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel,'I AM has
sent me to you.'" God, furthermore, said to Moses,
"Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'The LORD,
the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to
you.' This is My name forever, and this is My
memorial-name to all generations." -- 3:13-15
SLOW OF SPEECH
Then
Moses said to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I have
never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time
past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant;
for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue." The
LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or
who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is
it not I, the LORD? Now then go, and I, even I, will
be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to
say." -- 4:10-12
THE PASSOVER
Now
the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land
of Egypt, "This month shall be the beginning of
months for you; it is to be the first month of the year
to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel,
saying, 'On the tenth of this month they are each
one to take a lamb for themselves, according to
their fathers' households, a lamb for each household.
Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he
and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take
one according to the number of persons in them;
according to what each man should eat, you are to
divide the lamb. Your lamb shall be an unblemished
male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or
from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth
day of the same month, then the whole assembly of
the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.
Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and
put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the
houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh
that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat
it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not
eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather
roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with
its entrails. And you shall not leave any of it over
until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning,
you shall burn with fire. Now you shall eat it in this
manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your
feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat
it in haste -- it is the LORD'S Passover. For I will go
through the land of Egypt on that night, and will
strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both man and beast; and against all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgments -- I am the LORD.
The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses
where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass
over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy
you when I strike the land of Egypt. Now this day
will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it
as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations
you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.
-- 12:1-14
THE SONG OF MOSES
I
will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted;
The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.
The LORD is my strength and song, And He has
become my salvation; This is my God, and I will
praise Him; My father's God, and I will extol Him.
The LORD is a warrior; The LORD is His name.
Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has cast into
the sea; And the choicest of his officers are drowned
in the Red Sea. The deeps cover them; They went
down into the depths like a stone. Your right hand,
O LORD, is majestic in power, Your right hand, O
LORD, shatters the enemy. And in the greatness of
Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up
against You; You send forth Your burning anger,
and it consumes them as chaff. At the blast of Your
nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters
stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in
the heart
of the sea. The enemy said, "I will pursue,
I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall
be gratified against them; I will draw out my sword,
my hand will destroy them." You blew with Your
wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in
the mighty waters. Who is like You among the gods,
O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness,
Awesome in praises, working wonders? You
stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed
them. In Your lovingkindness You have led the
people whom You have redeemed; In Your strength
You have guided them to Your holy habitation.
The peoples have heard, they tremble; ... All the
inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. Terror
and dread fall upon them; By the greatness of Your
arm they are motionless as stone; Until Your people
pass over, O LORD, Until the people pass over
whom You have purchased. You will bring them
and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance,
The place, O LORD, which You have made for Your
dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands
have established. The LORD shall reign forever and
ever. -- 15:1-18
NONE OF THESE DISEASES
And
He said, "If you will give earnest heed to the
voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right
in His sight, and give ear to His commandments,
and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the
diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians;
for I, the LORD, am your healer." -- 15:26
A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS
Now
then, if you will indeed obey My voice and
keep My covenant, then you shall be My own
possession among all the peoples, for all the earth
is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests
and a holy nation. -- 19:5-6
THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS
Then God spoke all these words, saying, "I am the
LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have
no other gods before Me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any
likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth
beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall
not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your
God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers on the children, on the third And the fourth
generations of those who hate Me, but showing
lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me
and keep My commandments.
You shall Not take the name of the LORD your God
in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished
who takes His name in vain.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days
you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh
day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you
shall not do any work, you or your Son or your
daughter, your male or your female servant or your
cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in
six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth,
the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the
seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath
day and made it holy.
Honor your father and your mother, that your days
may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your
God gives you.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall
not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant
or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or
anything that belongs to your neighbor." -- 20:1-17
THE FINGER OF GOD
When
He had finished speaking with him upon Mount
Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony,
tablets of stone, written by the finger of God. -- 31:18
The
tablets were God's work, and the writing was
God's writing engraved on the tablets. -- 32:16
THE GLORY OF GOD
Then
Moses said, "I pray You, show me Your glory!"
And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness
pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the
LORD before you; and I will be gracious to whom I
will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom
I will show compassion." But He said, "You cannot
see My face, for no man can see Me and live!" Then
the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by Me, and
you shall stand there on the rock; and it will come
about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you
in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand
until I have passed by. Then I will take My hand
away and you shall see My back, but My face shall
not be seen." -- 33:18-23
THE CLOUD BY DAY AND THE FIRE
BY NIGHT
Then
the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the
glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. Moses was
not able to enter the tent of meeting because the
cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD
filled the tabernacle. Throughout all their journeys
whenever the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out; but if
the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out
until the day when it was taken up. For throughout
all their journeys, the cloud of the LORD was on the
tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night,
in the sight of all the house of Israel. -- 40:34-38
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