EXODUS 7:11-12 But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantment. For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. Larry Wu-Tai Chin was a master...
EXODUS 7:6-7 Then Moses and Aaron did so; just as the Lord commanded them, so they did. And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh. Usefulness doesn’t have to stop at retirement. At age 89 architect Philip Johnson designed a New York...
EXODUS 6:12, 30 And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “The children of Israel have not heeded me. How then shall Pharaoh heed me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?” But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh heed me?” In 1870...
EXODUS 6:9 So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not heed Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage. An old fable says that Satan once held a sale and offered all the tools of his profession to anyone who would pay the price....
EXODUS 6:2-3 And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them.” C. B. Moss wrote, “We do not believe that God has added,...
EXODUS 5:22 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Lord, why have You brought trouble on this people? Why is it You have sent me?” Many people find driving at night disorienting. Routes that are effortlessly navigated during the daylight hours seem twisted and turned around at night. Landmarks...
EXODUS 5:21 And they said to them,“Let the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us abhorrent in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.” Abraham Lincoln was one of the most criticized...
EXODUS 5:4, 8 Then the king of Egypt said to them,”Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor.” “And you shall lay on them the quota of bricks which they made before. You shall not reduce it. For they are idle;...
EXODUS 5:1-2 Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go?...
EXODUS 4:31 So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped. There are times when it seems the only appropriate thing to do is worship. Kenneth Grahame,...