Quotes about People

When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

and the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD, lest many of them perish.

But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ‘Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”

And the LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out against them.”

So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”

When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”

So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”

Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”