Quotes about Responsibility
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
— Exodus 5:11
No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
— Exodus 5:16
“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
— Exodus 5:17
The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
— Exodus 5:19
So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.
— Exodus 7:6
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
— Exodus 7:7
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
— Exodus 7:8
Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.
— Exodus 7:23
but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.
— Exodus 9:21
Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
— Exodus 16:28
The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.
— Exodus 18:13
When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”
— Exodus 18:14