Numbers 20:9
And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
Numbers 20:9 in other translations
| BSB | So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he had been commanded. |
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| WEB | Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. |
| ASV | And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as he commanded him. |
| YLT | And Moses taketh the rod from before Jehovah, as He hath commanded him, |
| DARBY | And Moses took the staff from before Jehovah, as he had commanded him. |
| BBE | And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave him orders. |
| Webster | And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. |
What does Numbers 20:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 20:2-13
2-13. there was no water for the congregation--There was at Kadesh a fountain, En-Mishpat (Ge 14:7), and at the first encampment of the Israelites there was no want of water. It was then either partially dried up by the heat of the season, or had been exhausted by the demands of so vast a multitude.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 20:1-13
After thirty-eight years' tedious abode in the wilderness, the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congregation. We live in a wanting world, and wherever we are, must expect to meet with something to put us out. It is a great mercy to have plenty of water, a mercy which, if we found the want of, we should more own the worth of. Hereupon they murmured against Moses and Aaron…
Numbers 20:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 20:9
- Numbers 17:10
And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
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Context
- Numbers 20:8
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.
- Numbers 20:9
And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
- Numbers 20:10
And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
Numbers 20:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces Moisés tomó la vara de delante de Jehová, como él le mandó. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Moïse prit la verge de devant l’ Éternel, comme il lui avait commandé. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Mose nahm den Stab vor Jehova weg, so wie er ihm geboten hatte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Tulit igitur Moyses virgam, quæ erat in conspectu Domini, sicut præceperat ei, |