Exodus 3:1

Good News Translation

One day while Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, he led the flock across the desert and came to Sinai, the holy mountain.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:19

Elijah left and found Elisha plowing with a team of oxen; there were eleven teams ahead of him, and he was plowing with the last one. Elijah took off his cloak and put it on Elisha.

1 Kings 19:8

Elijah got up, ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to walk forty days to Sinai, the holy mountain.

Psalm 106:19

They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol;

Exodus 17:6

I will stand before you on a rock at Mount Sinai. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” Moses did so in the presence of the leaders of Israel.

Exodus 18:12

Then Jethro brought an offering to be burned whole and other sacrifices to be offered to God; and Aaron and all the leaders of Israel went with him to eat the sacred meal as an act of worship.

Exodus 19:11

and be ready the day after tomorrow. On that day I will come down on Mount Sinai, where all the people can see me.

Exodus 19:3

and Moses went up the mountain to meet with God. The Lord called to him from the mountain and told him to say to the Israelites, Jacob's descendants:

Exodus 2:18

When they returned to their father, he asked, “Why have you come back so early today?”

Exodus 2:21

So Moses decided to live there, and Jethro gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage,

Exodus 24:13

Moses and his helper Joshua got ready, and Moses began to go up the holy mountain.

Exodus 3:12

God answered, “I will be with you, and when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will worship me on this mountain. That will be the proof that I have sent you.”

Exodus 3:5

God said, “Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground.

Exodus 33:6

So after they left Mount Sinai, the people of Israel no longer wore jewelry.

Exodus 4:18

Then Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go back to my relatives in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” Jethro agreed and told him good-bye.

Exodus 4:27

Meanwhile the Lord had said to Aaron, “Go into the desert to meet Moses.” So he went to meet him at the holy mountain; and when he met him, he kissed him.

Amos 1:1

These are the words of Amos, a shepherd from the town of Tekoa. Two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel, God revealed to Amos all these things about Israel.

Malachi 4:4

“Remember the teachings of my servant Moses, the laws and commands which I gave him at Mount Sinai for all the people of Israel to obey.

Numbers 10:29

Moses said to his brother-in-law Hobab son of Jethro the Midianite, “We are about to start out for the place which the Lord said he would give us. He has promised to make Israel prosperous, so come with us, and we will share our prosperity with you.”

Numbers 10:33

When the people left Sinai, the holy mountain, they traveled three days. The Lord's Covenant Box always went ahead of them to find a place for them to camp.

Luke 2:8

There were some shepherds in that part of the country who were spending the night in the fields, taking care of their flocks.

Acts 7:30

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 1:2

It takes eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai to Kadesh Barnea by way of the hill country of Edom.)

Deuteronomy 1:6

“When we were at Mount Sinai, the Lord our God said to us, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

Deuteronomy 4:10

about the day you stood in the presence of the Lord your God at Mount Sinai, when he said to me, ‘Assemble the people. I want them to hear what I have to say, so that they will learn to obey me as long as they live and so that they will teach their children to do the same.’

Judges 4:11

In the meantime Heber the Kenite had set up his tent close to Kedesh near the oak tree at Zaanannim. He had moved away from the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses.

1 Samuel 16:11

Then he asked him, “Do you have any more sons?” Jesse answered, “There is still the youngest, but he is out taking care of the sheep.” “Tell him to come here,” Samuel said. “We won't offer the sacrifice until he comes.”