Exodus 4:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 17:9 : 9 So 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.”
  • Num 20:8-9 : 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.” 9 So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, just as he commanded him.
  • Exod 4:17 : 17 You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”
  • Exod 4:2 : 2 The LORD said to him,“What is that in your hand?” He said,“A staff.”
  • Exod 18:3-4 : 3 and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom(for Moses had said,“I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”), 4 and the other Eliezer(for Moses had said,“The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).
  • Num 20:11 : 11 Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.

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  • Num 20:9
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    9So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, just as he commanded him.

  • Exod 4:2-4
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    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–

  • Exod 4:17-19
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    17You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”

    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.”

    19The LORD said to Moses in Midian,“Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

  • Exod 17:5
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    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.

  • Exod 4:21
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    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 18:1-2
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    1The Advice of Jethro Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

    2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

  • Exod 3:1
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    1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

  • Num 17:9
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    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.

  • Exod 18:4-6
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    4and the other Eliezer(for Moses had said,“The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

    5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camping by the mountain of God.

    6He said to Moses,“I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

  • Exod 18:8
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    8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

  • Exod 10:9
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    9Moses said,“We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and our cattle we will go, because we are to hold a pilgrim feast for the LORD.”

  • Num 17:1
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    1The Budding of Aaron’s Staff The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Gen 45:19
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    19You are also commanded to say,‘Do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come.

  • Exod 7:15
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    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 7:10
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    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 2:15
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    15When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.

  • Exod 17:9
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    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.”

  • Exod 14:26
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    26The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!”

  • Num 11:30
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    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Num 14:13
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    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Exod 4:29
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    29Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.

  • Exod 14:6
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    6Then he prepared his chariots and took his army with him.

  • Exod 18:27
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    27Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.

  • Num 17:11
    69%

    11So Moses did as the LORD commanded him– this is what he did.

  • Exod 9:23
    69%

    23When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the LORD caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 10:24
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    24Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said,“Go, serve the LORD– only your flocks and herds will be detained. Even your families may go with you.”

  • Exod 24:13
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    13So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.

  • Exod 2:17
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    17When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

  • Exod 7:20
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    20Moses 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.

  • Exod 3:10
    69%

    10So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

  • Acts 7:29
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    29When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

  • Exod 13:19
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    19Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear,“God will surely attend to you, and you will carry my bones up from this place with you.”

  • Exod 14:16
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    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.