Numbers 17:2 - Revised Standard Version

² “Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them rods, one for each fathers' house, from all their leaders according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods. Write each man's name upon his rod,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Speak to the Israelites and get from them rods or staves, one for each father's house, from all their leaders according to their father's houses, twelve rods. Write every man's name on his rod.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods: write thou every man’s name upon his rod.

Common English Bible

² Speak to the Israelites and take from them a staff from each household, from each of the chiefs of their households, twelve staffs. Write each person’s name on his staff.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² "Speak to the sons of Israel, and receive from each of them a rod by their kinships, from all the leaders of the tribes, twelve rods, and write the name of each one on his rod.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Speak to the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod by their kindreds, of all the princes of the tribes, twelve rods: and write the name of every man upon his rod.

Numbers 17:2 Cross References

Genesis 49:10

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

2 Chronicles 31:17

The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers' houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upwards was according to their offices, by their divisions.

Psalm 110:2

The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your foes!

Psalm 125:3

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hands to do wrong.

Exodus 30:26

And you shall anoint with it the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,

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.”

Ezekiel 19:14

And fire has gone out from its stem, has consumed its branches and fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for a ruler. This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

Ezekiel 21:10

sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Or do we make mirth? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.

Ezekiel 21:13

For it will not be a testing—what could it do if you despise the rod?” says the Lord God.

Micah 7:14

Shepherd thy people with thy staff, the flock of thy inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.

Numbers 17:1

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 17:3

and write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi. For there shall be one rod for the head of each fathers' house.

Numbers 7:1

On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings, and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,