Quotes about Moses
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
— Exodus 2:3
When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
— Exodus 2:10
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
— Exodus 2:11
The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
— Exodus 2:13
When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.
— Exodus 2:15
And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.
— Exodus 2:17
Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
— Exodus 2:21
And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
— Exodus 2:22
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
— Exodus 3:1
There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
— Exodus 3:2
So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
— Exodus 3:3
When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
— Exodus 3:4