Numbers 17:2
Speak unto the sons of Israel and take of them one staff each for an ancestral house of all their princes, by their ancestral houses, twelve staves,—each man’s name, shalt thou write upon his staff;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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In Context
1Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying:
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the commander’s staff from between his feet,—Until that he come in as a Shiloh, And, his, be the obedience of the peoples:
Exodus 4:17And this staff, take thou in thy hand,—wherewith thou shalt do the signs.
Numbers 1:5These, then, are the names of the men who shall stand with you,—Of Reuben, Elizur, son of Shedeur;
Numbers 7:1And it came to pass, on the day when Moses made an end of rearing up the habitation and anointing it, and hallowing it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar, and all the utensils thereof,—both of anointing them, and hallowing them,
2 Chronicles 31:17both the registering of the priests, by their ancestral houses, and the Levites, from twenty years old and upward,—in their watches, in their courses;
Psalms 125:3For the sceptre of lawlessness shall not remain over the allotment of the righteous,—lest the righteous put forth—unto perversity—their hands.
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 →