Numbers 20:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ “Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water; so you shall bring water out of the rock for them; so you shall give drink to the congregation and their cattle.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink.

Common English Bible

⁸ “You and Aaron your brother, take the staff and assemble the community. In their presence, tell the rock to provide water. You will produce water from the rock for them and allow the community and their animals to drink.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ "Take the rod, and gather the people, you and your brother Aaron, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall bestow waters. And when you have brought forth water from the rock, the entire multitude and their cattle shall drink."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother: and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink.

Numbers 20:8 Cross References

Genesis 18:14

Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, in the spring, and Sarah shall have a son.”

Nehemiah 9:15

Thou didst give them bread from heaven for their hunger and bring forth water for them from the rock for their thirst, and thou didst tell them to go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

Psalm 105:41

He opened the rock, and water gushed forth; it flowed through the desert like a river.

Psalm 114:8

who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.

Psalm 33:9

For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood forth.

Exodus 14:16

Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go on dry ground through the sea.

Exodus 17:9

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

Exodus 4:17

And you shall take in your hand this rod, with which you shall do the signs.”

Exodus 4:2

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

Exodus 4:20

So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an ass, and went back to the land of Egypt; and in his hand Moses took the rod of God.

Exodus 7:20

Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, he lifted up the rod and struck the water that was in the Nile, and all the water that was in the Nile turned to blood.

Isaiah 43:20

The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,

Isaiah 48:21

They thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he cleft the rock and the water gushed out.

Numbers 20:11

And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.

Numbers 20:7

and the Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 21:15

and the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab.”

Numbers 21:18

the well which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people delved, with the scepter and with their staves.” And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah,

Matthew 21:21

And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and never doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will be done.

Luke 11:13

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

John 16:24

Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Acts 1:14

All these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Joshua 6:20

So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people raised a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Joshua 6:5

And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.”

Revelation 22:1

Then he showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Revelation 22:17

The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let him who hears say, “Come.” And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life without price.