Following is a selection of some of the most memorable Key verses and passages in this book.
2:14 He said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? Moses was afraid and said, Surely this thing is known.
2:24 God heard their groaning and remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
3:5 He said, do not come closer. Take off your shoes, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
3:6 God said to Moses: I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look upon God.
9:16 For this cause I have raised you up, to show my power so that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
12:14 This day shall be to you for a memorial and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an ordinance forever.
12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
13:2 Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast, for it is mine.
13:12 You shall set apart unto the Lord all that opens the matrix and every first born that comes from any beast that you have. The males shall be the Lord's.
15:22-26 Moses brought Israel up from the Red sea and they went into the wilderness of Shur and after three days in the wilderness they found no water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah because they were bitter. 24 So the people murmured against Moses saying, What shall we drink? 25 And Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, which, when he cast a branch into the waters, the waters were made sweet. 26 Then God said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight and heed+ His commandments and keep all of His statutes, then I will put none of these diseases on you that I have brought upon the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.
15:27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
16:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather at a certain rate every day so that I may determine if they will walk in my law or not.
16:18 When they gauged it with an omer, those who gathered much had nothing over, and those who gathered little lacked nothing. They all gathered according to their need to eat.
17:8-11 Amalek to fight with Israel ... 9 and Moses said to Joshua, Choose some men to go out and fight Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. 10 Joshua did as Moses said, and they fought with Amalek. Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 When Moses' hands became heavy, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it and Aaron and Hur held+ up his hands, one on one side and one on the other side, and his hands were steady until the sun went down. 13 And Joshua defeated+ Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 14 And the Lord said to Moses, Write this in a book for a memorial and remember+ it, for I will utterly put this out as a remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 15 So Moses built an altar and called it Jehovahnissi.
16 And he said that the Lord has sworn that He will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
19:12 You shall set boundaries around the people, saying, Take heed, that you do not go up into the mountain or touch the border of it. For whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death:
19:13 No hand shall touch it, or else he shall surely be stoned or shot through. Whether it is man or beast, it shall not live. When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.
20:12 Honor your father and your mother so that your days may be long on the land which the Lord your God gives you.
20:13 You shall not murder.+
20:14 You shall not commit adultery.
20:15 You shall not steal.
20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house. you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
21:17 Those who curse father or mother shall surely be put to death.
21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
22:28 You shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of your people.
22:29 You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits and of your liquors. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.
24:7 He took the book of the covenant and read it to the audience of the people. And they said, All that the Lord has said will we do and be obedient.
24:8 Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.
25:40 See that you make them after their pattern that was shown to you in the mountain.
29:45 I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God.
31:6 Behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. In the hearts of all who are wise hearted I have put wisdom so that they may make all that I have commanded to you,
32:6 They rose up early on the next day and offered burned offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and then rose up to play.
32:23 They said to me, Make us gods that shall go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
32:26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Who is on the Lord's side? Let them come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
33:12 Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Bring up this people and you have not let me know who you will send with me. Yet you have said, I know you by name and you have also found grace in my sight.
33:13 Now therefore, I pray to you, If I have found grace in your sight, show me your way so that I may know you, so that I may find grace in your sight. And consider that this nation is your people.
33:14 He said, My presence shall go with you and I will give you rest.
33:15 He said to him, If your presence does not go with me, do not carry us up.
33:16 For where shall it be known that I and your people have found grace in your sight? Is it not in that you go with us? So shall we be separated, I and your people, from all the people that are on the face of the earth.
33:17 The Lord said to Moses, I will do this thing that you have asked because you have found grace in my sight and I know you by name.
33:18 Moses said, I beseech you, show me your glory.
33:19 God said, I will make all my goodness pass before you and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy upon whom I will show mercy.
33:20 God said, You cannot see my face because no one shall see me and live.
33:21 The Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me and you shall stand on a rock.
33:22-23 It shall come to pass, that while my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and will cover you with my hand while I pass by. I will take away my hand and you shall see my back side. But my face you shall not see.
34:1 The Lord said to Moses, Carve+ two tablets of stone like the first and I will write on these tablets the words that were in the first tablets that you broke.
34:2 Be ready in the morning and come up in the morning to mount Sinai and present yourself to me there at the top of the mountain.
34:3 No one shall come up with you. Neither shall anyone be seen throughout all the mountain. Not the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.
34:4 Moses carved two tables of stone like to the first, and he rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
34:5 The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
34:6 The Lord passed by before him and he proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in goodness and truth,
34:7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and on the children's children to the third and to the fourth generation.
34:8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.
34:14 You shall worship no other god because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
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