Exodus 4:2

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

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  • Exod 4:17 : 17 And take this staff in your hand, for with it you shall perform the signs.
  • Exod 4:20 : 20 So 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.
  • Lev 27:32 : 32 Every tithe of the herd or flock, every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s rod, will be holy to the LORD.
  • Ps 110:2 : 2 The Lord will send out the scepter of your strength from Zion, saying, "Rule in the midst of your enemies."
  • Isa 11:4 : 4 But he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
  • Mic 7:14 : 14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who live alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as they did in days of old.
  • Gen 30:37 : 37 Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled white stripes into them, exposing the inner wood.

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  • Exod 4:3-7
    5 verses
    87%

    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.'

    6Furthermore, the LORD said to him, 'Put your hand into your cloak.' So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, like snow.

    7'Now put your hand back into your cloak,' the LORD said. So he put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored to be like the rest of his body.

  • Exod 4:17
    83%

    17And take this staff in your hand, for with it you shall perform the signs.

  • Exod 4:1
    79%

    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’?

  • Num 20:9
    79%

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

  • Exod 17:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    4Then Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "What should I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me!"

    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."

  • Exod 7:8-10
    3 verses
    78%

    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
    77%

    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 7:15
    76%

    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.

  • Num 17:1
    75%

    1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 17:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    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 3:4
    74%

    4When the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him out of the bush and said, 'Moses, Moses!' And Moses replied, 'Here I am.'

  • Num 20:7
    73%

    7The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 11:23
    73%

    23The LORD answered Moses, 'Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.'

  • Exod 8:5
    72%

    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 7:12
    72%

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

  • Exod 14:16
    72%

    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.

  • Exod 8:16
    72%

    16Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he is going out to the water. Say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go so that they may worship me.'"

  • Exod 4:13
    72%

    13But Moses said, 'Pardon me, Lord. Please send someone else.'

  • Exod 9:23
    71%

    23When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.

  • Num 17:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    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!'

    7When the assembly gathered against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting, and there the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

  • Acts 7:31
    71%

    31Moses was amazed at what he saw. As he approached to look more closely, he heard the voice of the Lord say,

  • 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."

  • Exod 7:20
    70%

    20Moses 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.

  • Exod 3:11
    70%

    11But Moses said to God, 'Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?'

  • 2 Kgs 6:7
    70%

    7Then he said, "Lift it out." So the man reached out his hand and took it.

  • Exod 6:10
    70%

    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

  • Exod 4:10
    70%

    10Moses said to the LORD, 'Pardon me, Lord, but I am not eloquent—neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.'

  • Exod 7:1
    70%

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

  • Exod 4:15
    70%

    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.

  • Exod 14:1
    70%

    1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Lev 18:1
    70%

    1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Num 14:13
    69%

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

  • Num 14:26
    69%

    26Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

  • Exod 7:17
    69%

    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.'