Numbers 17:4
And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
Numbers 17:4 in other translations
| BSB | Place the staffs in the Tent of Meeting in front of the Testimony, where I meet with you. |
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| WEB | You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you. |
| ASV | And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. |
| YLT | and thou hast placed them in the tent of meeting, before the testimony, where I meet with you. |
| DARBY | And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. |
| BBE | And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front of the ark of witness where I come to you. |
| Webster | And thou shalt lay them in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you. |
What does Numbers 17:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 17:2-5
Nu 17:1-13. Aaron's Rod Flourishes. 2-5. Speak unto the children of Israel--The controversy with Moses and Aaron about the priesthood was of such a nature and magnitude as required a decisive and authoritative settlement. For the removal of all doubts and the silencing of all murmuring in the future regarding the holder of the office, a miracle was wrought of a remarkable character and permanent duration; and in the…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 17:1-7
It is an instance of the grace of God, that, having wrought divers miracles to punish sin, he would work one more to prevent it. Twelve rods or staves were to be brought in. It is probable that they were the staves which the princes used as ensigns of their authority; old dry staves, that had no sap in them. They were to expect that the rod of the tribe, or prince, whom God chose to the priesthood, should bud and…
Numbers 17:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 17:4
- Exodus 30:36
And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
- Exodus 29:42-43
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
- Exodus 25:16-22
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. …
- Numbers 17:7
And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness.
- Exodus 30:6
And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
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Context
- Numbers 17:3
And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
- Numbers 17:4
And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
- Numbers 17:5
And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
Numbers 17:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y las pondrás en el tabernáculo del testimonio delante del testimonio, donde yo me declararé á vosotros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Éléazar, le sacrificateur, prit les encensoirs d’airain qu’avaient présentés les hommes qui furent brûlés, et on les aplatit pour plaquer l’autel, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und du sollst sie in das Zelt der Zusammenkunft vor das Zeugnis niederlegen, woselbst ich mit euch zusammenkomme. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ponesque eas in tabernaculo fœderis coram testimonio, ubi loquar ad te. |