Numbers 17:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh come; And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

2 Chronicles 31:17

and them that were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their fathers' houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

Psalm 110:2

The LORD shall send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion: Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Psalm 125:3

For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.

Exodus 30:26

And thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony,

Exodus 4:17

And thou shalt take in thine hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.

Exodus 4:2

And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.

Ezekiel 19:14

And fire is gone out of the rods of her branches, it hath devoured her fruit, so that there is in her no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Ezekiel 21:10

it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.

Ezekiel 21:13

For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord GOD

Micah 7:14

Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

Numbers 17:1

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 17:3

And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.

Numbers 7:1

And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an end of setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them and sanctified them;