Exodus 4:17

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And take this staff in your hand, for with it you shall perform the signs.

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  • Exod 4:2 : 2 The LORD said to him, 'What is that in your hand?' Moses replied, 'A staff.'
  • Exod 7:9-9 : 9 "When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a miracle,' you shall say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.'" 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent. 11 Pharaoh then summoned the wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt did the same things by their secret arts. 12 Each one threw down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said. 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn; he refuses to let the people go. 15 "Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes down to the water. Wait to meet him by the riverbank, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake. 16 Then say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But so far you have not listened.' 17 This is what the Lord says: 'By this you will know that I am the Lord. With the staff that is in my hand, I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be turned into blood.' 18 The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the Nile. 19 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their reservoirs—and they will turn to blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.'" 20 Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded. Aaron raised his staff and struck the water of the Nile in the sight of Pharaoh and his officials, and all the water in the river was turned into blood.
  • 1 Cor 1:27 : 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

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  • Exod 4:1-5
    5 verses
    83%

    1Then Moses answered and said, 'What if they do not believe me or listen to me, but say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you’?

    2The LORD said to him, 'What is that in your hand?' Moses replied, 'A staff.'

    3Then He said, 'Throw it to the ground.' So Moses threw it to the ground, and it became a serpent, and he ran away from it.

    4Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand and grasp its tail.' So Moses stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff again in his hand.

    5'This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.'

  • Exod 17:5
    81%

    5The LORD answered Moses, "Go ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go."

  • Num 20:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

    7The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    8"Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to the rock in front of them, and it will yield its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community and their livestock to drink."

    9So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence, just as he was commanded.

  • Exod 7:15
    79%

    15"Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes down to the water. Wait to meet him by the riverbank, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.

  • Exod 7:8-10
    3 verses
    79%

    8The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    9"When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a miracle,' you shall say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.'"

    10So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

  • Exod 4:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

    21The LORD said to Moses, 'When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.'

  • Exod 4:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what to do.

    16He will speak for you to the people, and he will serve as your mouth, and you will serve as God to him.

  • Num 17:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    2Speak to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, and have him take the censers out of the burning remains and scatter the fire some distance away, for the censers are holy.

    3Take the censers of these men who sinned against their own lives and have them made into hammered plates to overlay the altar, for they presented them before the LORD, and they became holy. Let them serve as a sign to the Israelites.

    4So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that had been brought by those who were burned, and they were hammered into a covering for the altar.

    5It is to be a reminder to the Israelites, so that no unauthorized person—anyone who is not from Aaron’s descendants—may come near to burn incense before the LORD and become like Korah and his assembly, as the LORD had spoken to him through Moses.

    6The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron the next day, saying, 'You have killed the LORD’s people!'

  • Num 17:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    10'Move away from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.' And they fell facedown.

  • Exod 4:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8'If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second.'

    9'But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, then take some water from the Nile, pour it on the dry ground, and the water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.'

  • Exod 14:16
    73%

    16As for you, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it, so the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

  • Deut 34:11
    73%

    11For all the signs and wonders the Lord sent him to perform in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all his land,

  • Exod 4:30
    72%

    30Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses, and he performed the signs in the sight of the people.

  • Exod 7:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1The Lord said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet."

    2You shall speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron will speak to Pharaoh, so that he may let the Israelites go out of his land.

  • Exod 4:28
    71%

    28Then Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had said to him and all the signs He had commanded him to perform.

  • Exod 3:20
    71%

    20So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them; after that, he will let you go.

  • Exod 4:12
    71%

    12Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.'

  • Exod 3:12
    71%

    12God reassured him, 'I will certainly be with you. And this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.'

  • Deut 4:34
    71%

    34Or has any god ever tried to take for himself a nation from within another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

  • Exod 17:9
    71%

    9Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some men for us and go out to fight against Amalek. Tomorrow, I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."

  • Jer 32:21
    71%

    21You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, wonders, a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and great terror.

  • Exod 7:17
    71%

    17This is what the Lord says: 'By this you will know that I am the Lord. With the staff that is in my hand, I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be turned into blood.'

  • Exod 8:5
    70%

    5Moses said to Pharaoh, "I leave it to you to set the time for me to pray for you, your officials, and your people, so that the frogs will be removed from you and your houses, remaining only in the Nile."

  • Exod 4:18
    70%

    18Then Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, 'Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt to see if they are still alive.' And Jethro said to Moses, 'Go in peace.'

  • Exod 7:12
    70%

    12Each one threw down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

  • Num 14:13
    70%

    13But Moses said to the LORD, "The Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.