127 occurrences

'Told' in the Bible

He told his people, "Look, the Israeli people are more numerous and more powerful than we are.

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

Pharaoh's daughter told her, "Go," so the young girl went and called the child's mother.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Going out the next day, Moses noticed two Hebrew men fighting right in front of him. He told the one who was at fault, "Why did you strike your companion?"

Verse ConceptsFighting One AnotherTwo Other Men

The man replied, "Who appointed you to be an official judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses became terrified and told himself, "Certainly this event has become known!"

Verse ConceptsRulersAttempting To Kill MeThings Revealed

Then Moses told himself, "I'll go over and see this remarkable sight. Why isn't the bush burning up?"

Verse ConceptsNot DestroyedSeeing Situations

Moses told God, "Look! When I go to the Israelis and tell them, "The God of your ancestors sent me to you,' they'll say to me, "What is his name?' What should I say to them?"

Verse ConceptsMoses, Life OfI Am The LordGod Sending ProphetsWhat Is God's Name?

God also told Moses, "Tell the Israelis, "The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered from generation to generation.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsI Am The LordGod Sending ProphetsOther References To God's Name

Then God told Moses, "Reach out and grab its tail." So he reached out, grabbed it, and it became a staff in his hand.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of Moses And AaronTailsGraspingThings Changed

Again the LORD told him, "Put your hand into your bosom." He put his hand into his bosom and as soon as he brought it out it was leprous, like snow.

Verse ConceptsSnowMiracles Of Moses And AaronWhite Spots

Then Moses told the LORD, "Please, LORD, I'm not eloquent. I never was in the past nor am I now since you spoke to your servant. In fact, I talk too slowly and I have a speech impediment."

Verse ConceptsExcusesEloquenceMoses, Significance OfMutenessHumility, Examples OfSelf AbasementSpeech ImpedimentsNervousnessSpeech

Moses left and returned to his father-in-law Jethro. Moses told him, "Please let me go and return to my own people in Egypt so I can see whether they're still alive." Jethro told Moses, "Go in peace."

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsReturning to their landLiving OnBrothers in lawgirlfriends

The LORD told Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, because all the men who wanted to kill you are dead."

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill

Then the LORD told Moses, "When you set out to return to Egypt, keep in mind all the wonders that I've put in your power, so that you may do them before Pharaoh. But I'll harden his heart so that he won't let the people go.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillHardened HeartsGod Hardening PeopleHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPower, HumanOther Miracles

The LORD told Aaron, "Go meet Moses in the desert." So Aaron went, found him at the mountain of God, and embraced him.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingKissesIsrael In The WildernessMeeting People

Moses told Aaron all of the LORD's messages that he had sent with Moses, and all of the signs that he commanded him to do.

Verse ConceptsSigns From GodTelling Of God

After Moses and Aaron arrived, they told Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Let my people go so they may make a pilgrimage for me in the desert.'"

Verse ConceptsFeastsAaron, Moses SpokespersonA Feast In The WildernessFestivals Observed

Then the taskmasters of the people and their officials went out and told the people, "This is Pharaoh's response: "I'll no longer give you any straw.

Verse ConceptsHeraldTaskmasters

The Israeli supervisors whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had appointed over them were beaten and told, "Why didn't you, both yesterday and today, fulfill your quota for making bricks as before?"

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesFloggingIncomplete Works

The supervisors told them, "May the LORD look on you and judge you! You have made us repulsive to Pharaoh and his servants. You have put a sword in their hands to kill us."

Verse ConceptsNosesSmellsApproval To Kill

The LORD told Moses, "Now you're about to see what I'll do to Pharaoh. Indeed, he'll send them out under compulsion and he'll drive them out of his land violently."

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodLooking At God's Works

Then the LORD told Moses,

that the LORD told Moses, "I am the LORD. Tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, everything that I'm saying to you."

Verse ConceptsI Am The LordSpeaking The Word God Gives

The LORD told Moses, "Listen! I've positioned you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Ancestry And GenealogyAaron, PositionValidly Like GodIndividual ProphetsMen As Gods

Then the LORD told Moses and Aaron,

Then the LORD told Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hard. He has refused to let the people go.

Verse ConceptsCorrupted ConsciencesObstinate Individuals

The LORD also told Moses, "Tell Aaron, "Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their Nile River, over their ponds, and over their reservoirs, and they'll become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in their wood and stone containers.'"

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesRivers And StreamsStonesWoodPoolsRodsBucketsStretching OutWater ContainersWood And Stone

he told Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, "This is what the LORD says: "Let my people go so they may serve me.

Verse ConceptsPreaching, Content OfServanthood, And Worship Of GodWorshipping God

Then the LORD told Moses, "Tell Aaron, "Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the Nile River, and over the ponds, and bring up frogs over the land of Egypt.'"

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

Moses told Pharaoh, "You decide when I should plead for you, your servants, and your people to remove the frogs from you and your household. They'll remain only in the Nile River."

Verse ConceptsWhen?

Then the LORD told Moses, "Tell Aaron, "Stretch out your staff, strike the dust of the ground, and the dust will become gnats throughout the land of Egypt.'"

Verse ConceptsDust, Literal UseInsectsFliesThings Changed

The magicians told Pharaoh, "It is the finger of God!" But Pharaoh's heart was stubborn and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodHardness Of HeartMiracles, Responses ToMission, Of IsraelPower Of God, ExpressedStiffnecked PeopleObstinate IndividualsGod Writing With His Fingermagic

The LORD told Moses, "Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he's going down to the water. You are to say to him, "This is what the LORD says: "Let my people go so they can serve me.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationMorningRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyWorshipping God

We must go a three-day journey into the desert, and we'll offer sacrifices to the LORD our God just as he has told us."

Verse ConceptsThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The Wilderness

Then the LORD told Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, "This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: "Let my people go so they may serve me.

Verse ConceptsWorshipping GodProblem People

Then the LORD told Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it into the air in front of Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesSootSpectators

The LORD made Pharaoh's heart stubborn so that he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had told Moses.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillGod Hardening People

Then the LORD told Moses, "Get up early in the morning, present yourself to Pharaoh, and say to him, "This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: "Let my people go so they may serve me.

Verse ConceptsMorningThose Who Rose EarlyWorshipping GodEarly Rising

Then the LORD told Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people, animals, and all the vegetation of the field throughout the land of Egypt."

Verse ConceptsStretching OutBoth Men And Animals Affected

Pharaoh sent word and called for Moses and Aaron. "I've sinned this time," he told them. "The LORD is righteous, but I and my people are wicked.

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceGuilty ConsciencesGod, Righteousness OfPunishment, By GodAcknowledge, SinKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

Moses told him, "When I leave the city I'll spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease and the hail won't continue, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Belonging To GodKnowing God, Nature OfPlaguesPrayer, Practicalities OfProperty, LandStretching OutCessationPraying For SinnersThings StoppingAll Things Belong To God

Then the LORD told Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I've hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials in order to perform these signs of mine among them,

Verse ConceptsMiraculous SignsGod Hardening People

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, "This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: "How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so they may serveme.

Verse ConceptsHumilityBefore People ActWorshipping GodHumbling Oneself

Then the officials of Pharaoh told him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go so they may serve the LORD their God! Don't you realize yet that Egypt is about to be destroyed?"

Verse ConceptsMan TrappingBefore People ActWorshipping God

Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh and he told them, "Go, serve the LORD your God. But exactly who will go?"

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodWho Is The Doer?Worship God!

Then Pharaoh told them, "The LORD will certainly be with you if I let you and your little ones go. I know some evil plan is in your mind.

Verse ConceptsGod Be With YouWronging Other People

The LORD told Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt to bring the locusts, and they'll come up over the land of Egypt and eat all the vegetation of the land, everything that the hail left."

Verse ConceptsSymbolsStretching OutRemaining FoodAnimals Eating

Then the LORD told Moses, "Stretch your hand toward the sky and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that one can feel."

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

Then Pharaoh told him, "Get away from me! Watch out that you never see my face again, because on the day you see my face, you will die!"

Verse ConceptsNot Seeing PeopleKilling Will Happen

Then the LORD told Moses, "I'll bring one more plague on Pharaoh and Egypt. After that he'll let you leave from here, and when he lets you go, he will certainly drive you out from here.

Verse ConceptsRetributionorganization

The LORD told Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you. As a result, my wonders will increase throughout the land of Egypt."

The LORD told Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

Verse ConceptsAaron, PositionInspiration

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, "Choose sheep for your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambLambsMoses, Significance OfKilling SacrificesOthers SummoningSheep And GoatsThe Elders Gathered

Then he summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and told them: "Get up, go out from among my people, both you and the Israelis! Go, serve the LORD as you have said.

Verse ConceptsDuring One NightKings SummoningWorship God!

The LORD told Moses and Aaron, "These are the regulations for the Passover: No foreigner is to eat it,

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsLaws Restricting ForeignersThe Law Given To Israel

Then Moses told the people, "Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt, from the house of bondage, because the LORD brought you out from this place with a strong show of force. Moreover, nothing leavened is to be eaten.

Verse ConceptsCelebrationsHand Of GodHistoryYeastStrength Of GodLeaving EgyptGroups Of Slavesslavery

The LORD told Moses,

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the minds of Pharaoh and his officials changed toward the people, and they said, "What have we done in releasing Israel from serving us?"

Verse ConceptsPeople Changing Their MindsIsrael FleeingTelling Of Movements

They also told Moses, "Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you took us out to die in the desert? What have you done to us, by bringing us out of Egypt?

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathWhat Do You Do?

Is this not what we told you in Egypt, when we said, "Leave us alone!' and "Let us serve the Egyptians!'? Indeed, it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!"

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathLeave Us AloneServing GroupsDying In The Desert slaveryNot Being Alone

Moses told the people, "Don't be afraid! Stand still and watch how the LORD will deliver you today, because you will never again see the Egyptians whom you're looking at today.

Verse ConceptsBeing AfraidDeliverance, Means OfStillnessNot Seeing PeopleDo Not Fear For God Will Helpfearless

Then the LORD told Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea and the water will come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots, and over their horsemen."

Verse ConceptsStretching OutComing To The Red Sea

The Israelis told them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt when we sat by the cooking pots, when we ate bread until we were filled because you brought us to this desert to kill this entire congregation with hunger."

Verse ConceptsIngratitudeMeatSelf PityCynicismDying In The WildernessDesire For DeathPlenty In EgyptNo FoodGod Might Kill His PeoplePots For Cooking And EatingDying In The Desert WeedComplaininghungerpot

The LORD told Moses, "Listen very carefully! I'll cause food to rain down for you from heaven, and the people are to go out and gather each day's portion on that day. In this way I'll test them to demonstrate whether or not they'll live according to my instructions.

Verse ConceptsProving, Through TestingResentment, Against GodTestingDaily DutyOnce A Day

The LORD told Moses,

Moses told them, "It's the food that the LORD has given you to eat. This is what the LORD has commanded: "You are to gather from it what each person is to eat, about one omer per person according to the number of your people, and one person is to gather for everyone in his tent.'"

Verse ConceptsTentsGathering FoodAccording To People

Then Moses told them, "No one is to leave any of it until morning."

Verse Conceptstomorrow

and he told them, "This is what the LORD said: "Tomorrow is a Sabbath observance, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil, and put aside whatever remains to be kept for yourselves until morning.'"

Verse ConceptsCooking, MethodsLaw, Ten CommandmentsSabbaths InstitutedResttomorrowcooking

Then Moses told Aaron, "Take a jar, fill it with about one omer of manna, and place it in the LORD's presence, to be preserved throughout future generations."

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ContentsAaron, Life EventsArk Of The Covenant, PurposeMemorabiliapot

The people quarreled with Moses: "Give us water to drink." Moses told them, "Why are you quarreling with me? Why are you testing the LORD?"

Verse ConceptsTestingDisputesTesting GodGiving Food And DrinkProblem PeopleComplaining

Then the LORD told Moses, "Go over in front of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

Verse ConceptsThe Elders Gathered

Moses told Joshua, "Choose some men for us and go out to fight against the Amalekites. Tomorrow I'll stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."

So Joshua did as Moses told him and fought against the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsAaron, PrivilegesApprentices

Then the LORD told Moses, "Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua: "I'll certainly wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven.'"

Verse ConceptsAmalekitesRemindersScrollsWritingBlotted OutJudgements WrittenBooks Of Prophecy

He told Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you along with your wife and her two sons."

Verse ConceptsMeeting PeopleTelling Of Movements

Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians on Israel's behalf, all the hardships that they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

Verse ConceptsTravelling With GodSuffering, HardshipHard TasksTelling Of GodWhy God Did Things

Moses told his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to seek God's will.

Moses' father-in-law told him, "What you are doing is not good.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsDoing The Right Thing

When Moses came, he summoned the elders of the people and told them everything that the LORD had commanded him.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersLeaders, PoliticalOld Age, Attitudes ToOthers SummoningThe Elders Gathered

Then Moses reported all the words of the people back to the LORD. The LORD told Moses, "Look, I'm coming to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may listen when I speak with you and always believe you." Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyEternal LoyaltyHearing God's VoiceBelieving ProphetsTelling What People Said

The LORD told Moses, "Go down and warn the people so they don't break through to look at the LORD, and many of them perish.

Verse ConceptsSeeing GodDeath Due To God's Presence

Moses told the LORD, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai because you warned us: "Set boundaries around the mountain and consecrate it.'"

Verse ConceptsBoundariesHoliness, Believers' Growth InGoing Up Mountainslimitations

The LORD told him, "Go down, and come back up with Aaron, but the priests and the people must not break through to go up to the LORD. Otherwise, he will attack them."

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesGoing Up MountainsMan Going DownBreaking Forth

They told Moses, "You speak to us and we will listen, but don't let God speak with us, or we may die.

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceGod Speaking

The LORD told Moses, "This is what you are to say to the Israelis, "You have seen for yourselves that I spoke to you from heaven.

Verse ConceptsGod SpeakingGod Speaks From Heaven

"Be careful about everything I've told you, and don't mention the name of other gods. Don't let them be heard in your mouth!"

Verse ConceptsGod, Uniqueness OfLipsIdolatry Consists OfAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingCurbing SpeechDifferent GodsIdolatryDo Not Have Other gods

The LORD told Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel, and worship at a distance.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Privilegeselders, as community leadersSeventyGoing Up MountainsSeventiesWorshipping Goddistance

Then the LORD told Moses, "Go up to me on the mountain and stay there. I'll give you stone tablets with the instruction and law that I've written to teach the people."

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodGod, Will OfLaw, Ten CommandmentsMountainsStonesTabletsGoing Up MountainsThe Law Given By GodWood And StoneGod Writing With His Fingercommandments

He told the elders, "Wait here for us until we return to you. Look, Aaron and Hur are with you, and whoever has a dispute, let him come to them."

Verse ConceptsWaitingAaron, PrivilegesMotionlessnessStaying PutPeople WaitingWaiting Till Marriage

The LORD told Moses,

The LORD told Moses,

The LORD told Moses,

The LORD told Moses,

The LORD told Moses, "Take for yourself spices: stacte, onycha, galbanum, and spices with pure frankincense, all in equal amounts.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesDrugs

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ספר 
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