Numbers 20:8 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 20:8

“Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”

BSB

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ASV

Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Take the rod - That with which the miracles in Egypt had been performed (Exo 7:8 ff; Exo 7:19 ff; Exo 8:5 ff, etc.), and which had been used on a similar occasion at Rephidim (Exo 17:5 following). This rod, as the memorial of so many divine interpositions, was naturally laid up in the tabernacle, and is accordingly Num 20:9 described now as taken by Moses “from before the Lord.”

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
קַ֣ח	kach	take	H3947 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַמַּטֶּ֗ה	ha.ma.Teh	the rod	H4294 →
וְהַקְהֵ֤ל	ve.hak.Hel	and assemble	H6950 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הָעֵדָה֙	ha.'e.Dah	the congregation	H5712 →
אַתָּה֙	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
וְאַהֲרֹ֣ן	ve.'a.ha.Ron	and Aaron	H175 →
אָחִ֔יךָ	'a.Chi.kha	brother your	H251 →
וְדִבַּרְתֶּ֧ם	ve.di.bar.Tem	and you will speak	H1696 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַסֶּ֛לַע	ha.Se.la'	the rock	H5553 →
לְעֵינֵיהֶ֖ם	le.'ei.nei.Hem	to eyes their	H5869 →
וְנָתַ֣ן	ve.na.Tan	and it will give	H5414 →
מֵימָ֑יו	mei.Mav	water its	H4325 →
וְהוֹצֵאתָ֨	ve.ho.tze.Ta	and you will bring out	H3318 →
לָהֶ֥ם	la.Hem	for <the> them
מַ֙יִם֙	ma.yim	water	H4325 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הַסֶּ֔לַע	ha.Se.la'	the rock	H5553 →
וְהִשְׁקִיתָ֥	ve.hish.ki.Ta	and you will give drink to	H8248 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הָעֵדָ֖ה	ha.'e.Dah	the congregation	H5712 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
בְּעִירָֽם׃	be.'i.Ram	livestock their	H1165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
leads to
- John 4:14
  But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 21:6
  And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
- Isaiah 55:1–3
  “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- John 7:37
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Isaiah 12:3
  With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
Through
Nehemiah 9:15
In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to…
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:3–4
  They all ate the same spiritual food
- Deuteronomy 1:8
  See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
Through
Isaiah 43:20
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
leads to
- Isaiah 41:17
  The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

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