Quotes about Authority
And all these officials of yours will come and bow before me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that, I will depart.” And hot with anger, Moses left Pharaoh’s presence.
- Exodus 11:8
Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Exodus 13:1
The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.
- Exodus 18:13
“Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”
- Exodus 18:16
Have these men judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you any major issue, but all minor cases they can judge on their own, so that your load may be lightened as they share it with you.
- Exodus 18:22
Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.
- Exodus 18:24
So Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
- Exodus 18:25
And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any minor issue they would judge themselves.
- Exodus 18:26
No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
- Exodus 19:13
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.”
- Exodus 19:24
“Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”
- Exodus 20:19
Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:15