Quotes about Authority
Then the LORD said to Aaron, “Behold, I have put you in charge of My offerings. As for all the sacred offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute.
— Numbers 18:8
So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he had been commanded.
— Numbers 20:9
How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?
— Numbers 23:8
I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.
— Numbers 23:20
Now Balak said to Balaam, “Then neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”
— Numbers 23:25
that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I will speak whatever the LORD says.
— Numbers 24:13
And the LORD said to Moses,
— Numbers 25:16
“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
— Numbers 27:16
Confer on him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.
— Numbers 27:20
Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
— Numbers 30:1
But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.
— Numbers 30:8
But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.
— Numbers 30:12