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Webster's Bible Translation

Numbers 20:9

And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel;   Miracles;   Trouble;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Rocks;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Kadesh or Kadesh-Barnea;   Zin;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Kadesh-barnea;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Mourning;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Meribah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Kadesh Barnea;   Levi;   Meribah;   Moses;   Numbers, the Book of;   Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Aaron's Rod;   Kadesh-Meribah;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Provocation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron;   Jephthah;   Massah and Meribah;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Zin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kadesh, Kadeshbarnea ;   Miracles;   Moses ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Balaam;   Kadesh-barnea;   Levi;   Rebels;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Kadesh;   Meribali;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Massah and Meribah;   Moses;   Pentateuch;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Aaron;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bemidbar Rabbah;   Exodus, Book of;   Kadesh;   Miriam;   Water;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
King James Version
And Moses took the rod from before the Lord , as he commanded him.
Lexham English Bible
So Moses took the staff from before Yahweh just as he command him,
English Standard Version
And Moses took the staff from before the Lord , as he commanded him.
New Century Version
So Moses took the stick from in front of the Lord , as he had said.
New English Translation
So Moses took the staff from before the Lord , just as he commanded him.
Amplified Bible
So Moses took the rod from before the LORD, just as He had commanded him;
New American Standard Bible
So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, just as He had commanded him;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses tooke the rod from before the Lord, as he had commanded him.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, just as He had commanded him;
Contemporary English Version
Moses obeyed and took his stick from the sacred tent.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe took the staff from the presence of Adonai , as he had ordered him.
Darby Translation
And Moses took the staff from before Jehovah, as he had commanded him.
Easy-to-Read Version
The walking stick was in the Holy Tent, in front of the Lord . Moses took the walking stick as the Lord said.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
Good News Translation
Moses went and got the stick, as the Lord had commanded.
Christian Standard Bible®
So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence just as he had commanded him.
Literal Translation
And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as He commanded him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The toke Moses the staffe before ye LORDE, as he commaunded him,
American Standard Version
And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as he commanded him.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave him orders.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses toke the rodde from before the Lord, as he commaunded hym.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as He commanded him.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses tooke the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses took his rod which was before the Lord, as the Lord commanded.
English Revised Version
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
Berean Standard Bible
So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence, just as He had commanded.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Moises took the yerde that was in the `siyt of the Lord, as the Lord comaundide to hym,
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses taketh the rod from before Jehovah, as He hath commanded him,
Update Bible Version
And Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
World English Bible
Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
New King James Version
So Moses took the rod from before the LORD as He commanded him.
New Living Translation
So Moses did as he was told. He took the staff from the place where it was kept before the Lord .
New Life Bible
So Moses took the special stick from before the Lord, just as He had told him.
New Revised Standard
So Moses took the staff from before the Lord , as he had commanded him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses took the staff from before Yahweh, - as he commanded him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he had commanded him,
Revised Standard Version
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
THE MESSAGE
Moses took the staff away from God 's presence, as commanded. He and Aaron rounded up the whole congregation in front of the rock. Moses spoke: "Listen, rebels! Do we have to bring water out of this rock for you?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses took the rod from before the LORD, just as He had commanded him;

Contextual Overview

1 Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month; and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people chid with Moses, and spoke, saying, O that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! 4 And why have ye brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? 5 And why have ye conducted us from Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? it [is] no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither [is] there any water to drink. 6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared to them. 7 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 8 Take the rod, and convene thou the assembly, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye to the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth its water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give drink to the congregation and their beasts. 9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. 10 And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 17:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:20 - the rod of God Exodus 17:6 - and thou

Cross-References

Genesis 12:18
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this [that] thou hast done to me? why didst thou not tell me that she [is] thy wife?
Genesis 20:10
And Abimelech said to Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
Genesis 20:11
And Abraham said, Because I thought, surely the fear of God [is] not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
Genesis 20:18
For the LORD had made barren all the females of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 26:10
And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done to us? one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought guiltiness upon us.
Genesis 34:7
And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard [it]: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Genesis 38:24
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told to Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and also, behold she [is] with child by lewdness: and Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
Genesis 39:9
[There is] none greater in his house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Exodus 32:21
And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people to thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
Exodus 32:35
And the LORD afflicted the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses took the rod from before the Lord..... Which was laid up somewhere in the sanctuary, as well as the rod of Aaron,

Numbers 17:7:

as he commanded him; being always faithful and obedient to him that appointed him.


 
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