Exodus 4:17
New International Version
But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.”

New Living Translation
And take your shepherd’s staff with you, and use it to perform the miraculous signs I have shown you.”

English Standard Version
And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”

Berean Standard Bible
But take this staff in your hand so you can perform signs with it.”

King James Bible
And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.

New King James Version
And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”

New American Standard Bible
And you shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.”

NASB 1995
“You shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.”

NASB 1977
“And you shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.”

Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”

Amplified Bible
You shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs [the miracles which prove I sent you].”

Christian Standard Bible
And take this staff in your hand that you will perform the signs with.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And take this staff in your hand that you will perform the signs with.”

American Standard Version
And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And take this staff in your hand to do signs with it.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And this rod that was turned into a serpent thou shalt take in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt work miracles.

Contemporary English Version
Now take this walking stick and use it to perform miracles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt take in thine hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Take that shepherd's staff with you, and use it to do the miraculous signs."

Good News Translation
Take this walking stick with you; for with it you will perform miracles."

International Standard Version
Now pick up that staff with your hand. You'll use it to perform the signs."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.'

Literal Standard Version
and you take this rod in your hand, with which you do the signs.”

Majority Standard Bible
But take this staff in your hand so you can perform signs with it.”

New American Bible
Take this staff in your hand; with it you are to perform the signs.

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

New Revised Standard Version
Take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.”

New Heart English Bible
You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt take this rod in thy hand, with which thou shalt perform signs.

World English Bible
You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”

Young's Literal Translation
and this rod thou dost take in thy hand, with which thou doest the signs.'

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Context
The Appointment of Aaron
16He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him. 17But take this staff in your hand so you can perform signs with it.”

Cross References
Exodus 4:2
And the LORD asked him, "What is that in your hand?" "A staff," he replied.

Exodus 4:20
So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

Exodus 7:9
"When Pharaoh tells you, 'Perform a miracle,' you are to say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,' and it will become a serpent."

Exodus 14:16
And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

Exodus 17:9
So Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand."

Numbers 20:8
"Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock."

2 Kings 4:29
So Elisha said to Gehazi, "Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy's face."


Treasury of Scripture

And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do signs.

Exodus 4:2
And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.

Exodus 7:9,19
When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent…

1 Corinthians 1:27
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

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Exodus 4
1. Moses's rod is turned into a serpent.
6. His hand is leprous.
10. He loathes his calling.
13. Aaron is appointed to assist him.
18. Moses departs from Jethro.
21. God's message to Pharaoh.
24. Zipporah circumcises her son.
27. Aaron is sent to meet Moses.
29. The people believe them.














(17) This rod, i.e., "the rod that had been changed into a serpent," as the LXX. paraphrase.

(18) Signs.--Rather, "the signs" (?? ??????, LXX.); i.e., the signs which thou wilt have to perform, as already implied in Exodus 3:20.

Verse 17. - Thou shalt take this rod. Not any rod, but the particular one which had already once become a serpent. Wherewith thou shalt do signs. Rather, "the signs," i.e. the signs which thou wilt have to do, as already declared in Exodus 3:20. It is quite gratuitous to suppose that God had already particularised them

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

take
תִּקַּ֣ח (tiq·qaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

this
הַזֶּ֖ה (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

staff
הַמַּטֶּ֥ה (ham·maṭ·ṭeh)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4294: A staff, rod, shaft, branch, a tribe

in your hand
בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ (bə·yā·ḏe·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

so that
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

you can perform
תַּעֲשֶׂה־ (ta·‘ă·śeh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

signs with it.”
הָאֹתֹֽת׃ (hā·’ō·ṯōṯ)
Article | Noun - common plural
Strong's 226: A signal, as a, flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence


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