Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

For David ascended not into heaven; but he himself said: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou on my right hand,

Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me: him you shall hear according to all things whatsoever he shall speak to you.

And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.

Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate vain things?

The kings of the earth stood up: and the princes assembled together against the Lord and his Christ.

And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred: and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange country, and that they should bring them under bondage and treat them evil four hundred years.

And the nation which they shall serve will I judge (said the Lord): and after these things they shall go out and shall serve me in this place.

And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren. Why hurt you one another?

But he that did the injury to his neighbour thrust him away, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us:

What! Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian?

And Moses seeing it wondered at the sight. And as he drew near to view it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying:

I am the God of thy fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. And Moses being terrified durst not behold.

And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place wherein thou standest is holy ground.

Seeing, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt: and I have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them. And now come: and I will send thee into Egypt.

This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel: A prophet shall God raise up to you of your own brethren, as myself. Him shall you hear.

Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool. What house will you build me (saith the Lord)? Or what is the place of my resting?