Quotes about Community
But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.
— Numbers 10:4
“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
— Numbers 10:31
If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
— Numbers 10:32
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
— Numbers 11:8
I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.
— Numbers 11:14
And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
— Numbers 11:17
So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.
— Numbers 11:24
Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.
— Numbers 11:30
From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.
— Numbers 11:35
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
— Numbers 14:1
And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
— Numbers 14:39
The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.
— Numbers 15:15