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Christian Standard Bible ®

Numbers 17:4

Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;   Mercy-Seat;   Miracles;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Divination;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ark of the Covenant;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aaron's Rod;   Rod, Staff;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron's Rod;   Hexateuch;   Numbers, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lots;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Melchizedek;   Tabernacle, the;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Aaron's Rod;   Ezekiel;   Korah;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Priest;   Writing;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Incense;   Priest;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
King James Version
And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
Lexham English Bible
You must then put them in the tent of assembly before the testimony where I meet with you.
New Century Version
Put them in the Meeting Tent in front of the Ark of the Agreement, where I meet with you.
New English Translation
You must place them in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant where I meet with you.
Amplified Bible
"You shall then deposit them in the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle) in front of [the ark of] the Testimony, where I meet with you.
New American Standard Bible
"You shall then leave them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony, where I meet with you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
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.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall then deposit them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony, where I meet with you.
Contemporary English Version
Place these sticks in the tent right in front of the sacred chest where I appear to you.
Complete Jewish Bible
El‘azar the cohen took the brass fire pans which the men who had been burned to death had offered, and they hammered them into a covering for the altar,
Darby Translation
And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
Easy-to-Read Version
Put these walking sticks in the Meeting Tent in front of the Box of the Agreement. This is the place where I meet with you.
English Standard Version
Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall put them in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
Good News Translation
Take them to the Tent of my presence and put them in front of the Covenant Box, where I meet you.
Literal Translation
And you shall place them in the tabernacle of the congregation, before the testimony, where I shall meet with you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And laye the in the Tabernacle of witnesse, before the witnesse where I testifie vnto you.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
Bible in Basic English
And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front of the ark of witness where I come to you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And put them in the tabernacle of the congregation, before [the arke] of the testimonie, where I wyll declare my selfe vnto you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt lay them vp in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, before the Testimony, where I will meet with you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt put them in the tabernacle of witness, before the testimony, where I will be made known to thee.
English Revised Version
And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
Berean Standard Bible
Place the staffs in the Tent of Meeting in front of the Testimony, where I meet with you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt putte tho yerdis in the tabernacle of boond of pees, bifor the witnessyng, where Y schal speke to thee; the yerde of hym schal buriowne, whom Y schal chese of hem;
Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast placed them in the tent of meeting, before the testimony, where I meet with you.
Update Bible Version
And you shall lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt lay them in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
World English Bible
You shall lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
New King James Version
Then you shall place them in the tabernacle of meeting before the Testimony, where I meet with you.
New Living Translation
Place these staffs in the Tabernacle in front of the Ark containing the tablets of the Covenant, where I meet with you.
New Life Bible
Then put them in the meeting tent before the Law, where I meet with you.
New Revised Standard
Place them in the tent of meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shalt thou lay them up in the tent of meeting, - before the testimony, where I meet with you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the covenant before the testimony, where I will speak to thee.
Revised Standard Version
Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall then deposit them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony, where I meet with you.

Contextual Overview

1The Lord instructed Moses: 2“Speak to the Israelites and take one staff from them for each ancestral tribe, twelve staffs from all the leaders of their tribes. Write each man’s name on his staff. 3Write Aaron’s name on Levi’s staff, because there is to be one staff for the head of each tribe. 4Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you. 5The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of the Israelites’ complaints that they have been making about you.” 6So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. Aaron’s staff was among them. 7Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 25:16-22, Exodus 29:42, Exodus 29:43, Exodus 30:6, Exodus 30:36

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:18 - met Exodus 25:22 - and I will Exodus 25:33 - like unto

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make you into a great nation,I will bless you,I will make your name great,and you will be a blessing.
Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and be blameless.
Genesis 17:11
You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and you.
Genesis 17:18
So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael were acceptable to you!”
Genesis 22:17
I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
Genesis 32:12
You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.’”
Genesis 35:11
God also said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you.
Genesis 48:19
But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe, and he too will be great; nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a populous nation.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation,.... In the most holy place:

before the testimony; that is, the ark in which the testimony or the law was; here they were laid as in the presence of God, who was in a miraculous way to decide the controversy by them, and put an end to it; for upon the ark was the mercy seat, over which were the cherubim, the seat of the divine Majesty, and where none could come at them, and where no fraud could be supposed to be committed:

where I will meet with you; not with the people in person, who might not go at any time into the most holy place; nor with Aaron, who only might go into it on the day of atonement; but with Moses, the chief ruler and representative of the whole body of the people, and who might go in there at any time, to consult with God about matters of moment and difficulty, and where the Lord had said he would meet him,

Exodus 25:22; and now would, in a miraculous way, clearly show him, and the people of Israel by him, who was the priest he had chosen of all the tribes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before the testimony - See Numbers 17:10 note.


 
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