The Torah Quotes

“Chapter 34 Moses went up from the plains of Moab into the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is over against Jericho. And Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, 34:1 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah unto the Mediterranean Sea, and the south, 34:2 and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. 34:3 And Yahweh said to Moses, “This is the land I swore unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your children.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go into it.” 34:4 So Moses, the servant of Yahweh, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh. 34:5 And Yahweh buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-Peor, but no man knows of his sepulcher to this day. 34:6 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Yahweh spoke unto Moses that same day, saying, 32:48 “Go into the mountains of Abarim, unto Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab opposite Jericho, and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession. 32:49 You will die on that mountain and be gathered unto your ancestors, as Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered unto his ancestors, 32:50 because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel. 32:51 You shall see the land before you, but you shall not go in. You shall not cross over into the land I give to Israel.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“As an eagle stirs her nest and flutters over her young, as she takes them up and bears them upon her wings, 32:11 so did Yahweh alone lead Jacob. There was no other god with him. 32:12 He brought him to the mounts and valleys of earth, that he might eat the crops of the fields. He gave him honey from rock, and oil from flint. 32:13 He gave you butter of cows, and milk of sheep, and fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, and kernels of wheat, and you drank the pure blood of the grape.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“When the Most High divided mankind into nations— when he separated the sons of Adam—he set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of gods in his retinue. 32:8 Yahweh's portion is the people of Israel. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 32:9 He found him in the desert, a wasteland, a howling wilderness”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Moses spoke to all Israel, and said unto them, 31:1 “I am a hundred and twenty years old this day. I can no more go out and come in. Also, Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over Jordan.’ 31:2 Yahweh will go over before you, and he will destroy those nations, and you shall possess them. Joshua shall lead you, as Yahweh has said. 31:3 Yahweh shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites, whom he destroyed.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“You may lend with usury to strangers, but unto your brother you shall not charge interest,”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“You shall not hate an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not hate an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them, 21:18 his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and bring him to the elders of his city, at the city gates. 21:19 They shall say to the elders, ‘Our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21:20 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones until he dies.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“When you go forth to war against your enemies, and Yahweh has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive, 21:10 and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to have her for a wife, 21:11 you shall bring her to your house. She shall shave her head, cut her nails 21:12 and take off the clothes she was captured in. She shall remain in your house and mourn her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go unto her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 21:13 If you have no delight in her, you shall let her go whither she will. You shall not sell her. You shall not make merchandise of her because you have humbled her.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“The Lord said, “Who has made man's mouth? Who takes away his voice or hearing? Who makes him see or be blind? Is it not the Lord? 4:11 Therefore go. I will help you speak. I will teach you what to say.” 4:12 Moses said, “O my Lord, I pray you, send someone else.” 4:13 The Lord became angry with Moses. But then he said, “What about Aaron the Levite, your brother? I know he can speak well. He is on his way to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Moses, Moses.” And Moses said, “Here I am.” 3:4 The Lord said, “Do not come any closer. Take off your shoes. Where you stand is holy ground.” 3:5 Then the Lord said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon the Lord. 3:6 The Lord said, “I have seen the affliction of the Israelites in Egypt. I have heard their cry under their masters, and I know their sorrows. 3:7 I have come to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good land, a large land flowing with milk and honey, a place where the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites all dwell.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Yahweh shall bless you, as he promised. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow from any. You shall reign over many nations, but none shall reign over you.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Know that Yahweh does not give you this good land because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked, stubborn people. 9:6 Remember, and never forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to anger in the wilderness. From the day you departed Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Love you, therefore, the stranger, for you were strangers in Egypt.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 2:17 ‘Today you shall pass through Ar, on the border of Moab. 2:18 When you come near the Ammonites, do not trouble them or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land. I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Then we passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 2:8 Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not trouble the Moabites, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Moses heard the people weeping, every man in the door of his tent, and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly. Moses was also displeased. 11:10 Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you afflicted your servant? Have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of these people on me? 11:11 Am I the father of all these people? Have I begotten them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nurse bears a sucking child into the land you promised to their ancestors?’ 11:12 Where am I to get meat for all these people? They cry out to me, ‘Give us flesh, that we may eat.’ 11:13 I am not able to bear all these people alone. It is too heavy for me. 11:14 If you would deal with me thus, just kill me now, I pray you. But if I have found favor in your sight, let me not endure this wretchedness.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“For all the days of his vow of isolation there shall no razor come upon his head, until the days be fulfilled in which he separates himself unto Yahweh. He shall be holy, and let the locks of the hair grow long.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“If a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not vex him. 19:33 A stranger who dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you. You shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh, your God.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Yahweh spoke to Moses, telling him to 12:1 speak to the children of Israel, saying, “If a woman conceives and bears a male child, she shall be unclean for seven days after the birth. 12:2 On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 12:3 She shall then continue in the blood of her purifying for thirty-three days. She shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are fulfilled. 12:4 If she bears a female child, she shall be unclean for two weeks after the birth, and shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days. 12:5 When the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and give them to the priest, 12:6 who shall offer it before Yahweh, and make an atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“I am Yahweh, who brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying to 4:1 tell the children of Israel, “If a soul sins against any of Yahweh’s commandments through ignorance of the things that ought not be done, and does any of them, 4:2 or if the anointed priest sins and brings guilt upon the people, let him bring a young bull without blemish for a sin offering to Yahweh. 4:3 He shall bring the bull to the door of the tabernacle and lay his hand upon the bull's head, and kill the bull before Yahweh. 4:4 The anointed priest shall take the bull's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation. 4:5 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle the blood seven times before Yahweh in front of the veil of the sanctuary. 4:6 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the tabernacle, then pour all the blood of the bull at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle. 4:7 And he shall take from the bull all the fat for the sin offering— the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is upon the innards, 4:8 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, which he shall take away with the kidneys, 4:9 just as it was taken from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings— and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering. 4:10 The skin of the bull, and all his flesh, and his head, and his legs, and his innards and his dung— 4:11 the whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on a wood fire. Where the ashes are poured out, he shall be burnt.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“For Moses had said to them, “Consecrate yourselves to Yahweh today. Every man shall kill his son and his brother, that Yahweh may bestow upon you a blessing this day.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“So Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Who is on the Lord's side? Let him come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered to him. 32:26 He said to them, “Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let every man take up his sword. Go from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you shall kill his brother, and his friend, and his neighbor.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“As soon as Moses came near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing, and his anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets down, and broke them at the foot of the mountain.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“And Yahweh repented of the evil that he thought to do to his people.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Moses beseeched Yahweh his God, and said, “Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, who you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? 32:11 Why let the Egyptians say, ‘With an evil plan he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains, and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Take a census of the Israelites to number them. When they are numbered, every man shall pay a ransom for his soul to Yahweh.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

“Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy elders of Israel went up the mountain. 24:9 And they saw the Lord of Israel. Under his feet was a floor of sapphire stone, dazzling and clear as the heavens. 24:10 He did not lay a hand on the nobles of the Israelites. They saw Yahweh, and they ate and drank.”
― Bart Marshall, The Torah: The Five Books of Moses