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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Numbers 17:1

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;   Miracles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Divination;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aaron's Rod;   Numbers, Book of;   Rod, Staff;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron's Rod;   Hexateuch;   Numbers, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lots;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Melchizedek;   Tabernacle, the;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Aaron's Rod;   Ezekiel;   Father's House;   Korah;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Priest;   Writing;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Priest;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord said to Moses,
New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told Moses:
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said to Moshe,
Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to Moses,
English Standard Version
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
George Lamsa Translation
AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord said to Moses,
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord instructed Moses:
Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye LORDE spake vnto Moses, & sayde
American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD said to Moses,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises, `and seide, Speke thou to the sones of Israel,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New King James Version
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
New Living Translation
Then the Lord said to Moses,
New Life Bible
The Lord said to Moses,
New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses,
THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the People of Israel. Get staffs from them—twelve staffs in all, one from the leader of each of their ancestral tribes. Write each man's name on his staff. Start with Aaron; write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi and then proceed with the rest, a staff for the leader of each ancestral tribe. Now lay them out in the Tent of Meeting in front of The Testimony where I keep appointments with you. What will happen next is this: The staff of the man I choose will sprout. I'm going to put a stop to this endless grumbling by the People of Israel against you."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and take of euery one of them a rod, according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes, according to the house of their fathers, twelue rods: write thou euery mans name vpon his rodde. 3 And thou shalt write Aarons name vpon the rod of Leui: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers. 4 And thou shalt lay them vp in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, before the Testimony, where I will meet with you. 5 And it shall come to passe, that the mans rod whom I shall choose, shall blossome: and I will make to cease from mee the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmure against you. 6 And Moses spake vnto the children of Israel, and euery one of their Princes gaue him a rod a piece, for each Prince one, according to their fathers houses, euen twelue rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. 7 And Moses layd vp the rods before the Lord, in the Tabernacle of Witnesse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:49 - Aaron

Cross-References

Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God, after he begate Methuselah, three hundred yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God tooke him.
Genesis 12:1
Now the LORD had said vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kinred, and from thy fathers house, vnto a land that I will shew thee.
Genesis 12:7
And the LORD appeared vnto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed wil I giue this land: and there builded hee an altar vnto the LORD, who appeared vnto him.
Genesis 16:16
And Abram was fourescore and sixe yeeres old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis 18:1
And the LORD appeared vnto him, in the plaines of Mamre: and he sate in the tent doore, in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:14
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed will I returne vnto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall haue a sonne.
Genesis 28:3
And God Almighty blesse thee, and make thee fruitfull, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people:
Genesis 35:11
And God saide vnto him, I am God Almightie: be fruitfull and multiply: a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and Kings shall come out of thy loynes.
Genesis 48:15
And he blessed Ioseph and said, God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walke, the God which fedde mee all my life long vnto this day,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... After the plague ceased, for the further confirmation of the priesthood in Aaron's family, another method is directed to by the Lord:

saying: as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVII

The twelve chiefs of the tribes are commanded to take their

rods, and to write the name of each tribe upon the rod that

belonged to its representative; but the name of Aaron is to be

written on the rod of the tribe of Levi, 1-3.

The rods are to be laid up before the Lord, who promises that

the man's rod whom he shalt choose for priest shall blossom,

4, 5.

The rods are produced and laid up before the tabernacle, 6, 7.

Aaron's rod alone buds, blossoms, and bears fruit, 8, 9.

It is laid up before the testimony as a token of the manner in

which God had disposed of the priesthood, 10, 11.

The people are greatly terrified, and are apprehensive of being

destroyed, 12, 13.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVII


 
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