The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Genesis ch. 32, v. 26

For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

Genesis ch. 32, v. 30

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.

Genesis ch. 37, v. 3

Behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

Genesis ch. 37, v. 7

Behold, this dreamer cometh.

Genesis ch. 37, v. 19

Some evil beast hath devoured him.

Genesis ch. 37, v. 20

And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me; and he left his garment in her hand, and fled.

Genesis ch. 39, v. 12

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.

Genesis ch. 41, v. 20

And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears.

Genesis ch. 41, v. 24

Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt.

Genesis ch. 42, v. 1

Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

Genesis ch. 42, v. 9

My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befell him by the way in which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis ch. 42, v. 38

Ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Genesis ch. 45, v. 18

See that ye fall not out by the way.

Genesis ch. 45, v. 24

Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been.

Genesis ch. 47, v. 9

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

Genesis ch. 49, v. 4

2.116.2.2 Exodus

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

Exodus ch. 1, v. 8

She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime.

Exodus ch. 2, v. 3

Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?

Exodus ch. 2, v. 14

I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Exodus ch. 2, v. 22. See Exodus ch. 18, v. 3

Behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Exodus ch. 3, v. 2

Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Exodus ch. 3, v. 5

And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

Exodus ch. 3, v. 6

A land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus ch. 3, v. 8

I AM THAT I AM.

Exodus ch. 3, v. 14

The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

Exodus ch. 3, v. 15

But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

Exodus ch. 4, v. 10

I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

Exodus ch. 5, v. 2

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Exodus ch. 7, v. 3

Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not.

Exodus ch. 7, v. 12

Let my people go.

Exodus ch. 7, v. 16

A boil breaking forth with blains.

Exodus ch. 9, v. 10

Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

Exodus ch. 10, v. 21

Your lamb shall be without blemish.

Exodus ch. 12, v. 5

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

Exodus ch. 12, v. 8

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

Exodus ch. 20, v. 1

Life for life,

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Exodus ch. 21, v. 23

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Exodus ch. 22, v. 18

Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

Exodus ch. 23, v. 19

And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummin.

(Sacred symbols worn on the breastplate of the high priest) Exodus ch. 28, v. 30

These be thy gods, O Israel.

Exodus ch. 32, v. 4

And the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Exodus ch. 32, v. 6

I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

Exodus ch. 33, v. 3

There shall no man see me and live.

Exodus ch. 33, v. 20

2.116.2.3 Leviticus

And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

Leviticus ch. 11, v. 7

Let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

Leviticus ch. 16, v. 10

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Leviticus ch. 19, v. 18. See St Matthew ch. 19, v. 19

2.116.2.4 Numbers

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Numbers ch. 6, v. 24

These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land.

Numbers ch. 13, v. 16

And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Numbers ch. 13, v. 33

And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land.

Numbers ch. 21, v. 24

He whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

Numbers ch. 22, v. 6

God is not a man, that he should lie.

Numbers ch. 23, v. 19

What hath God wrought!

Numbers ch. 23, v. 23. Quoted by Samuel Morse in the first electric telegraph message, Washington, 24 May 1844

I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.

Numbers ch. 24, v. 10

Be sure your sin will find you out.

Numbers ch. 32, v. 23

2.116.2.5 Deuteronomy

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day.

Deuteronomy ch. 4, v. 26

Remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm.

Deuteronomy ch. 5, v. 15

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.

Deuteronomy ch. 6, v. 4

For the Lord thy God is a jealous God.

Deuteronomy ch. 6, v. 15.

Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Deuteronomy ch. 8, v. 3.

If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams...Thou shalt not hearken.

Deuteronomy ch. 13, v. 1

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly...Thou shalt not consent.

Deuteronomy ch. 13, v. 6

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

Deuteronomy ch. 25, v. 4

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark.

Deuteronomy ch. 27, v. 17

In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning!

Deuteronomy ch. 28, v. 67

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.

Deuteronomy ch. 29, v. 29

I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may live.

Deuteronomy ch. 30, v. 19

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Deuteronomy ch. 32, v. 10

For they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

Deuteronomy ch. 32, v. 20

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

Deuteronomy ch. 32, v. 23

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

Deuteronomy ch. 33, v. 27

No man knoweth of his [Moses’] sepulchre unto this day.

Deuteronomy ch. 34, v. 6

2.116.2.6 Joshua

As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Joshua ch. 1, v. 5

Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest.

Joshua ch. 1, v. 9

This line of scarlet thread.

Joshua ch. 2, v. 18

All the Israelites passed over on dry ground.

Joshua ch. 3, v. 17

When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city.

Joshua ch. 6, v. 20

Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation.

Joshua ch. 9, v. 21

Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of

Ajalon.

Joshua ch. 10, v. 12

I am going the way of all the earth.

Joshua ch. 23, v. 14

2.116.2.7 Judges

He delivered them into the hands of spoilers.

Judges ch. 2, v. 14

Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary.

Judges ch. 4, v. 21

I arose a mother in Israel.

Judges ch. 5, v. 7

The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

Judges ch. 5, v. 20

He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

Judges ch. 5, v. 25

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down.

Judges ch. 5, v. 27

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

Judges ch. 5, v. 28

Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two?

Judges ch. 5, v. 30

The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

Judges ch. 6, v. 12

The Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet.

Judges ch. 6, v. 34

The host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

Judges ch. 7, v. 8

Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?

Judges ch. 8, v. 2

Faint, yet pursuing.

Judges ch. 8, v. 4

Let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

Judges ch. 9, v. 15

Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him.

Judges ch. 12, v. 6

Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.

Judges ch. 14, v. 14

If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

Judges ch. 14, v. 18

He smote them hip and thigh.

Judges ch. 15, v. 8

With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

Judges ch. 15, v. 16

The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.

Judges ch. 16, v. 9

He wist not that the Lord was departed from him.

Judges ch. 16, v. 20

He did grind in the prison house.

Judges ch. 16, v. 21

The dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Judges ch. 16, v. 30

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Judges ch. 17, v. 6

From Dan even to Beer-sheba.

Judges ch. 20, v. 1

The people arose as one man.

Judges ch. 20, v. 8

2.116.2.8 Ruth

Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

Ruth ch. 1, v. 16

2.116.2.9 1 Samuel

All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.

1 Samuel ch. 2, v. 33

The Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

1 Samuel ch. 3, v. 4

Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again.

1 Samuel ch. 3, v. 5

Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.

The ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

Quit yourselves like men, and fight.

He fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake. And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel.

Is Saul also among the prophets?

1 Samuel ch. 10, v. 11

God save the king.

1 Samuel ch. 10, v. 24

A man after his own heart.

1 Samuel ch. 13, v. 14

Come up to us and we will shew you a thing.

I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.

To obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.

Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

For the Lord seeth not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.

Let no man’s heart fail because of him.

Go, and the Lord be with thee.

And he took his staff in his hand and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook.

1 Samuel ch. 17, v. 40

Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?

1 Samuel ch. 17, v. 43

Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

1 Samuel ch. 18, v. 7

And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand.

1 Samuel ch. 23, v. 7

Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

1 Samuel ch. 26, v. 21

2.116.2.10 2 Samuel

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away.

2 Samuel ch. 1, v. 19

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

2 Samuel ch. 1, v. 23

And David danced before the Lord with all his might.

2 Samuel ch. 6, v. 14

Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

2 Samuel ch. 11, v. 15

The poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb.

2 Samuel ch. 12, v. 3

Thou art the man.

2 Samuel ch. 12, v. 7

While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept...But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him but he shall not return to me.

2 Samuel ch. 12, v. 22

For we needs must die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person.

2 Samuel ch. 14, v. 14