Numbers 17:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod by their kindreds, of all the princes of the tribes, twelve rods, and write the name of every man upon his rod.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3And the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe of Levi, and one rod shall contain all their families:
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.
Exodus 4:17And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.
Numbers 1:5Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur.
Numbers 7:1And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof,
2 Chronicles 31:17To the priests by their families, and to the Levites from the twentieth year and upward, by their classes and companies.
Psalms 125:3perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,
Matthew Henry on Numbers 17:2-8
The Blossoming of Aaron's Rod. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod. 3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers. 4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the… Read the whole commentary →