Quotes about Responsibility
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
— Genesis 44:33
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
— Genesis 44:34
When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’
— Genesis 46:33
my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
— Genesis 50:5
Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
— Genesis 50:6
So Jacob’s sons did as he had charged them.
— Genesis 50:12
But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
— Genesis 50:19
“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
— Exodus 2:8
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
— Exodus 2:9
But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”
— Exodus 2:14
But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
— Exodus 4:13
He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.
— Exodus 4:16