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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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.

Exodus 4:20 Cross References

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.”

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.

Exodus 4:2

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

Exodus 4:17

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

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.

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 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 18:6

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