Prophet and lawgiver · Exodus, c. 1400–1200 BC
Moses in the Bible
Rescued from the Nile and raised in Pharaoh's household, Moses flees to Midian and is called back at the burning bush to lead Israel out of Egypt. He receives the law at Sinai, intercedes for a people who repeatedly turn away, and dies in sight of a land he never enters.
Verses mentioning Moses
855 occurrences across 784 verses in the King James Version.
- Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Read in context - Exodus 24:6
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Read in context - Exodus 24:8
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Read in context - Exodus 24:9
Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
Read in context - Exodus 24:12
And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Read in context - Exodus 24:13
And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
Read in context - Exodus 24:15
And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
Read in context - Exodus 24:16
And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
Read in context - Exodus 24:18
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Read in context - Exodus 25:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Read in context - Exodus 30:11
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Read in context - Exodus 30:17
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Read in context - Exodus 30:22
Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Read in context - Exodus 30:34
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
Read in context - Exodus 31:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Read in context - Exodus 31:12
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Read in context - Exodus 31:18
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Read in context - Exodus 32:1
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Read in context - Exodus 32:7
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
Read in context - Exodus 32:9
And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Read in context - Exodus 32:11
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? the LORD: Heb. the face of the LORD
Read in context - Exodus 32:15
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
Read in context - Exodus 32:17
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
Read in context - Exodus 32:19
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Read in context - Exodus 32:21
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
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