Exodus 4:17

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You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”

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  • Exod 4:2 : 2 The LORD said to him,“What is that in your hand?” He said,“A staff.”
  • Exod 7:9-9 : 9 “When Pharaoh says to you,‘Do a miracle,’ and you say to Aaron,‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ it will become a snake.” 10 When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the LORD had commanded them– Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake. 11 Then Pharaoh also summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt by their secret arts did the same thing. 12 Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted. 14 The First Blow: Water to Blood The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people. 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Position yourself to meet him by the edge of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake. 16 Tell him,‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say,“Release my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness!” But until now you have not listened. 17 This is what the LORD has said:“By this you will know that I am the LORD: I am going to strike the water of the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned into blood. 18 Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.”’” 19 Then the LORD said to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over Egypt’s waters– over their rivers, over their canals, over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs– so that it becomes blood.’ There will be blood everywhere in the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.” 20 Moses and Aaron did so, just as the LORD had commanded. He raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.
  • 1 Cor 1:27 : 27 But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 4:1-5
    5 verses
    83%

    1The Source of Sufficiency Moses answered again,“And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say,‘The LORD has not appeared to you’?”

    2The LORD said to him,“What is that in your hand?” He said,“A staff.”

    3The LORD said,“Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.

    4But the LORD said to Moses,“Put out your hand and grab it by the tail”– so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand–

    5“that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

  • Exod 17:5
    81%

    5The LORD said to Moses,“Go over before the people; take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.

  • Num 20:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

    7Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    8“Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and then speak to the rock before their eyes. It will pour forth its water, and you will bring water out of the rock for them, and so you will give the community and their beasts water to drink.”

    9So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, just as he commanded him.

  • Exod 7:15
    79%

    15Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Position yourself to meet him by the edge of the Nile, 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,‘Do a miracle,’ and you say to Aaron,‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ it will become a snake.”

    10When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the LORD had commanded them– Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.

  • Exod 4:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

    21The LORD said to Moses,“When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

  • Exod 4:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15“So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you must do.

    16He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.

  • Num 17:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1The Budding of Aaron’s Staff The LORD spoke to Moses:

    2“Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe, one from every tribal leader, twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff.

    3You must write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for one staff is for the head of every tribe.

    4You must place them in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant where I meet with you.

    5And the staff of the man whom I choose will blossom; so I will rid myself of the complaints of the Israelites, which they murmur against you.”

    6So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each leader, according to their tribes– twelve staffs; the staff of Aaron was among their staffs.

  • Num 17:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9So Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each man took his staff.

    10The Memorial The LORD said to Moses,“Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die.”

  • Exod 4:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8“If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.

    9And if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to you, then take some water from the Nile and pour it out on the dry ground. The water you take out of the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

  • Exod 14:16
    73%

    16And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.

  • Deut 34:11
    73%

    11He did all the signs and wonders the LORD had sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, all his servants, and the whole land,

  • Exod 4:30
    72%

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

  • Exod 7:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1So the LORD said to Moses,“See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

    2You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.

  • Exod 4:28
    71%

    28Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him and all the signs that he had commanded him.

  • Exod 3:20
    71%

    20So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.

  • Exod 4:12
    71%

    12So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”

  • Exod 3:12
    71%

    12He replied,“Surely I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve God at this mountain.”

  • Deut 4:34
    71%

    34Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

  • Exod 17:9
    71%

    9So Moses said to Joshua,“Choose some of our men and go out, 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 used your mighty power and your great strength to perform miracles and amazing deeds and to bring great terror on the Egyptians. By this means you brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 7:17
    71%

    17This is what the LORD has said:“By this you will know that I am the LORD: I am going to strike the water of the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned into blood.

  • Exod 8:5
    70%

    5The LORD spoke to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.’”

  • Exod 4:18
    70%

    18The Return of Moses So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him,“Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses,“Go in peace.”

  • Exod 7:12
    70%

    12Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

  • Num 14:13
    70%

    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–