1. "And Moses took all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel." -Exodus ch. 24.4
2. "We got to figger close. It's a sad thing to figger close. Le's see, now. There's Grampa an' Granma-that's two. An' me an' John and' Ma-that's five. An' Noad an' Tommy an' Al-that's eight. Rosasharn an' Connie is teen, an' Ruthie an' Winfiel' is twelve." Grapes of Wrath pg 139
3. -"And when she could no longer hide him, she took him an arc of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink." -Exodus ch.2.3
-"He walked down the highway, past the boxcar flat,until he came to a place where the boiling stream ran close to the road, where the willows grew along the road side..He guided the box gently out into the current and let it go." Grapes, pg. 609
4. -"...And he spied an Eqyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethen. .12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand." Exodus ch 2.11-12
-" 'My brother Tom. Better not fool with him. He killed a fella.'" Grapes pg. 347.
5. -"And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish." Exodus, ch 19.21
-"He said fiercely, 'Go down an' tell 'em. Go down in the street an' rot an' tell 'em that way. That's the way you can talk. Don' even know if you was a boy or a girl. Ain't gonna find out. Go on down now, an' lay in the street.' " Grapes pg. 609.
6. " Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always come kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there? And the owner men started their cars and rolled away." Grapes of Wrath pg. 46
7. "The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream. And it..." Grapes of Wrath pg. 264
8. "The Joad family moved slowly westward, up into the mountains of New Mexico, past the pinnacles and pyramids of the upland. They climbed into the high country of Arizona, and through a gap they looked down on the Painted Desert. A border guard stopped them." Grapes of Wrath pg 274
9. "Ruthie and Winfield scrambled down from the car, and then they stood, silent and awestruck, embarrassed before the great valley. The distance was thinned with haze, and the land grew softer and softer in the distance. A windmill flashed in the sun, and its turning blades were like a little heliograph, far away. Ruthie and Winfield looked at it, and Ruthie whispered, "It's California." Grapes of Wrath pg. 310
10. "There's five sanitary units. Each one elects a Central Committee man. Now that committee makes the laws. What they say goeswell, you can vote em out jus as quick as you vote em in. Theyve done a fine job. (Steinbeck, Grapes, pg. 391-392)
-1 ¶ And God spake all these words, saying,
.2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exodus 20
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