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Moses ΧžΦΉΧ©ΦΆΧΧ” (MΓ³she Standard Hebrew, Mōőeh Tiberian Hebrew, Ω…ΩˆΨ³Ω‰ MΕ«sa Arabic) is prominent figure appearing in the Torah as the Hebrew leader, liberator, intercessor, lawgiver, and prophet.

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β€œAnd has the story of Moses come to thee?”
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β€œJehovah will rule as king forever and ever.”
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β€œHas not there come to thee the story of Moses,”
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β€œAnd certainly We gave Moses the Book that they might go aright.”
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β€œAnd Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'Heal her now, O God, I beseech Thee.”
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β€œAnd when We gave Moses the Book and the Discernment that you might walk aright.”
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β€œWhat shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.”
β€œWe recite to thee the story of Moses and Pharaoh with truth, for a people who believe.”
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β€œAnd certainly We gave Moses the Book and We appointed with him his brother Aaron, an aide.”
β€œI will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. ”
β€œAsk now of the days that are past which were before thee, since the day God created man upon earth.”
β€œFear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.”
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β€œIf thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.”
β€œBut for this very reason I have kept you in existence: to show you my power and to have my name declared in all the earth.”
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β€œWho am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
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β€œAnd she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.”
β€œBut they became divided into sects, each party rejoicing in that which was with them. So leave them in their ignorance till a time.”
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β€œO my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
β€œAnd certainly We gave Moses the Book after We had destroyed the former generations clear arguments for men and a guidance and a mercy, that they may be mindful.”
β€œAnd certainly We gave Moses nine clear signs; so ask the Children of Israel. When he came to them, Pharaoh said to him: Surely I deem thee, O Moses, to be one bewitched.”
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β€œAnd Pharaoh's wife said: A refreshment of the eye to me and to thee – slay him not; maybe he will be useful to us, or we may take him for a son. And they perceived not.”
β€œI pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.”
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β€œAnd We gave Moses the Book and made it a guidance to the Children of Israel (saying): Take no guardian beside Me -- The offspring of those whom We bore with Noah. Surely he was a grateful servant.”
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β€œBehold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?'''”
β€œAnd We gave them both the clear Book. And We guided them on the right way. And We granted them among the later generations (the salutation), Peace be to Moses and Aaron! Thus do We reward the doers of good. Surely they were both of Our believing servants.”

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Moses on Judaism 3 quotes

β€œWhat shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.”
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Moses on Strangers 2 quotes

β€œI have been a stranger in a strange land.”
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Moses on Jehovah 2 quotes

β€œJehovah will rule as king forever and ever.”
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Moses on God 2 quotes

β€œThou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.”
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Moses on Lord 2 quotes

β€œThou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.”
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Moses on Love 2 quotes

β€œThou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
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Moses on Bible quotes about love 2 quotes

β€œThou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
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Moses on Dishonesty

β€œDo not deceive one another.”
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Moses on Astrology

β€œAstrology is a disease, not a science.”
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Moses on Perfection

β€œThou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.”
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Moses on Lying

β€œThou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”
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Moses on Obedience

β€œAll that Jehovah has spoken we are willing to do, and we will be obedient.”
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Moses on Baruch Spinoza 4 quotes

β€œ...The teaching of Spinoza, the product of the Jewish genius and modern science [Wissenschaft], does not stand in contradiction with the Jewish teaching of unity - at most it may contradict its rationalistic and super-naturalistic approach.”
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Moses on Theodor Mommsen

β€œMommsen, the indisputable Meister of Roman history, unrivalled in his own day and today.”
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Moses on Karl Marx

β€œTry to imagine Rousseau, Voltaire, Holbach, Lessing, Heine and Hegel all rolled into one β€” truly united so as to make a unified whole and you will get an idea of Marx's makeup.”
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Moses on Hesiod

β€œ"What was at the beginning?" Gigon said of Hesiod, "is the question of history precisely at the point where it turns into philosophy... The question Hesiod poses is no longer about the historical past, but about the beginning of what exists, the question of philosophical origins..." But "history" is wholly out of place here. Hesiod is foreshadowing the step from mythos to logos, and that step was not mediated by history. It bypassed history altogether. It moved from the timelessness of myth to the timelessness of metaphysics.”
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Bettina Aptheker on Moses

β€œmy first childhood memory of the name Moses came from hearing Paul Robeson singing of him, in the unmistakable deep bass that was his voice alone: "Go down Moses/Way down in Egypt land/Tell ol' Pharaoh/To let my people go"”
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Winston Churchill on Moses

β€œThe supreme law-giver, who received from God that remarkable code upon which the religious, moral, and social life of the nation was so securely founded… [and] one of the greatest human beings with the most decisive leap forward ever discernable in the human story.”
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Deuteronomy on Moses

β€œAnd Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. … And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, and in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.”

Albert Einstein on Moses

β€œI am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve man's condition than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general distrust. Who can doubt that Moses was a better leader of humanity than Machiavelli?”
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George Eliot on Moses

β€œEven the man Moses, the meekest of men, was wrathful sometimes.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Moses

β€œFamiliar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.”
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Exodus on Moses 3 quotes

β€œAnd she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.”
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Source on Moses

β€œMoses, when tending Jethro's flock in the wilderness, proved himself a tender shepherd. He was not above carrying a little lamb, becoming footsore in its search for water, on his shoulder back to the flock. God said, 'This tender shepherd of man's flock shall be the shepherd of my own flock.'”

About Moses

Moses ΧžΦΉΧ©ΦΆΧΧ” (MΓ³she Standard Hebrew, Mōőeh Tiberian Hebrew, Ω…ΩˆΨ³Ω‰ MΕ«sa Arabic) is prominent figure appearing in the Torah as the Hebrew leader, liberator, intercessor, lawgiver, and prophet.