Exodus 4:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt, and Moses carried the staff of God in his hand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on donkeys, and he returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

Common English Bible

So Moses took his wife and his children, put them on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. Moses also carried the shepherd’s rod from God in his hand.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, Moses took his wife and his sons, and he placed them upon a donkey, and he returned into Egypt, carrying the staff of God in his hand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass: and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.

Exodus 4:20 Cross References

Exodus 14:16

But you lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the Israelites may go into the sea on dry ground.

Exodus 17:9

Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some men for us and go out; fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

Exodus 18:6

He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, with your wife and her two sons.”

Exodus 2:22

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been an alien residing in a foreign land.”

Exodus 4:17

Take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.”

Exodus 4:2

The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”

Numbers 20:11

Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff; water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their livestock drank.

Acts 7:29

When he heard this, Moses fled and became a resident alien in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.