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Numbers 17:9

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Then Moses brought out all the staffs from the LORD’s presence to all the Israelites. They saw them, and each man took his own staff.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Moses brought out all the rods from before Jehovah unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

KJV

And Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

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This verse in Numbers 17

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord, unto all the children of Israel,.... He brought them out of the holy place, and showed them to the princes of the several tribes: and they looked, and took every man his rod; which they knew by their names upon them; by their own handwriting, as Aben Ezra; for though Moses is bid to write their names on them, Num 17:2; yet no more may be meant by that than that he should order them to be written, and take care that they were.

This site's exposition

Then Moses brought out all the staffs

on Numbers 17:9-10

Hebrews 9:4 places Aaron’s staff that had budded inside the ark. By 1 Kings 8:9 there was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets. Albert Barnes reads the gap as a loss, perhaps when the Philistines took the ark in 1 Samuel 4.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The flourishing of the almond-tree is mentioned as one of the signs of old age, Eccl. xii. This character was betimes put upon the Mosaic priesthood, which soon became old and ready to vanish away, Heb. viii. It was a type and figure of Christ and his priesthood: for he is the man, the branch, that is to be a priest upon his throne, as it follows ( Zech. vi.

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

I have not understood the intention of this verse, nor of its companion above, Separate yourselves from among this congregation, 189 Above,:21.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Numbers 17:10:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
“Remove [ separate ] yourselves from this congregation and I shall annihalate them in an instant,” and they fell upon their faces.
Targum · Onkelos Numbers 17:10, via Sefaria, Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּצֵ֨אand he brought out

    vaiyotze'H3318 →1067 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֤הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַמַּטֹּת֙the rods

    hamatotH4294 →252 times

  • מִלִּפְנֵ֣יfrom to before

    milifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶֽל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • בְּנֵ֖י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וַיִּרְא֥וּand they saw

    vaiyiruH7200 →1300 times

  • וַיִּקְח֖וּand they took

    vaiyikchuH3947 →966 times

  • אִ֥ישׁeach one

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • מַטֵּֽהוּ׃ סrod his

    matehuH4294 →252 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 17 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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