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

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Exodus 3:6.

  • And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Exodus17:11.

  • And the L spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDExodus 33:11.

  • So Moses the servant of the L died there in the land of Moab† but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDDeuteronomy 34:5^6.

  • There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Joshua1:5.

  • Of the people of Moses there is a nation who guide by the truth, and by it act with justice.

    -The Koran
    Sura 7, l.159.

  • The law of Moses is harsh and severe, as for an enslaved and stubborn people, but it punishes theft with a fine, not death. Let us not think that in his new law of mercy, where he treats us with the tenderness of a father,God has given us greater license to be cruel to one another.

    - SirThomas More
      Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

  • Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

    - R(onald) S(tuart) Thomas
      Laboratories of the Spirit,'The Bright Field'.

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