Numbers 17:2

Numbers chapter 17 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.1And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

v.2This passage

v.3And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 37:16

    And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:

  • Psalms 110:2

    Jehovah will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion: Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

  • Numbers 10:14

    And in the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

  • 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 Jehovah.

  • Exodus 4:2

    And Jehovah said unto him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A rod.