These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Numbers 17
Tanakh 13 verses
- 1 And spoke unto , saying:
- 2 Speak unto the children of , and take of them rods, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods; thou shalt write every man’s upon his rod.
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And thou shalt write Aaron’s upon the rod of , for there shall be one rod for the head of their fathers’ houses.
Cross references (5)
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And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the , where I meet with you.
Cross references (5)
- 5 And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall bud; and I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the children of , which they murmur against you.’
- 6 And spoke unto the children of ; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods; and the rod of was among their rods.
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7
And laid up the rods before in the tent of the .
Cross references (3)
- 8 And it came to pass on the morrow, that went into the tent of the ; and, behold, the rod of for the house of was budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
- 9 And brought out all the rods from before unto all the children of ; and they looked, and took every man his rod.
- 10 and said unto : ‘Put back the rod of before the , to be kept there, for a token against the rebellious children; that there may be made an end of their murmurings against Me, that they die not.’
- 11 Thus did ; as commanded him, so did he.
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12
And the children of spoke unto , saying: ‘Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
Cross references (6)
- 13 Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the of , is to die; shall we wholly perish?’