Quotes about Obedience
After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
— Exodus 5:1
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
— Exodus 5:7
But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
— Exodus 5:8
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
— Exodus 5:11
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
— Exodus 5:18
So the LORD said to Moses,
— Exodus 6:10
“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”
— Exodus 6:11
But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
— Exodus 6:12
He said to him, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”
— Exodus 6:29
You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.
— Exodus 7:2
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