Quotes about Nations
and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
- Genesis 25:23
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
- Genesis 26:4
May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”
- Genesis 27:29
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
- Genesis 41:57
But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
- Genesis 48:19
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
- Genesis 49:10
The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
- Exodus 15:14
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Exodus 19:5
Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Exodus 34:11
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
- Leviticus 18:24
So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
- Leviticus 18:28
You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
- Leviticus 20:23