Quotes about Memory

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.

The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,

When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”

But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.

These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.