Numbers 20:8
“Take the staff and assemble the community, you, and Aaron your brother. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and command it to flow with water. You will produce water for them out of that rock, and you must give it to the community and their cattle to drink.”
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In Context
7Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
9Moses took the staff from before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
Cross References
Genesis 18:14Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the time appointed by me, in the spring, I will return to you. About this time next year Sarah will have a son.”
Exodus 4:17You will take in your hand this staff. With it you will do the signs.”
Exodus 7:20Moses and Aaron did as Yahweh commanded. Aaron raised the staff and struck the water in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants. All the water in the river turned to blood.
Exodus 17:5Yahweh said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take with you some elders of Israel. Take with you the staff with which you struck the river, and go.
Numbers 20:11Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, and much water came out. The community drank, and their cattle drank.
Numbers 21:18about the well that our leaders dug, 1 the well the nobles of the people dug, 1 with the scepter and their staffs.” Then from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 20:2-14
The Death of Miriam; The Water of Meribah; Moses and Aaron Reproved. ( b. c. 1453.) 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 gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord ! 4 And why… Read the whole commentary →