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Aaron’s Staff Buds

Numbers 17:4

In 11 translations

BSB
Place the staffs in the Tent of Meeting in front of the Testimony, where I meet with you.The Testimony refers to the stone tablets in the ark of the covenant inscribed with the Ten Commandments; also in verse 10.
KJV
And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
WEB
You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.
ASV
And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
LSV
And you have placed them in the Tent of Meeting before the Testimony, where I meet with you.
YLT
and thou hast placed them in the tent of meeting, before the testimony, where I meet with you.
DBY
And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
DRC
And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the covenant before the testimony, where I will speak to thee.
GNV
And thou shalt put them in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, before the Arke of the Testimonie, where I wil declare my selfe to you.
JPS17:19
And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
LXXE17:19
And thou shalt put them in the tabernacle of witness, before the testimony, where I will be made known to thee.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC17:19
וְהִנַּחְתָּ֖ם בְּאֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד לִפְנֵי֙ הָֽעֵד֔וּת אֲשֶׁ֛ר אִוָּעֵ֥ד לָכֶ֖ם שָֽׁמָּה׃KJV:Num.17.4
LXX-Br17:19
Καὶ θήσεις αὐτὰς ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ τοῦ μαρτυρίου, κατέναντι τοῦ μαρτυρίου, ἐν οἷς γνωσθήσομαί σοι ἐκεῖ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 30:36Grind some of it into fine powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.
  • Exodus 30:6Place the altar in front of the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony —before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony—where I will meet with you.
  • Exodus 29:42–43For the generations to come, this burnt offering shall be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you. I will also meet with the Israelites there, and…
  • Exodus 25:16–22And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you. And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends…
  • Numbers 17:7Then Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the Tent of the Testimony.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 17:19 in some Bibles
  • 17:4 in most Bibles

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