Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

New American Standard Bible

So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.

King James Version

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

Holman Bible

So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took God’s staff in his hand.

International Standard Version

So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on donkeys, and headed back to the land of Egypt. Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

American Standard Version

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

Amplified

So Moses took his wife [Zipporah] and his sons [Gershom and Eliezer] and seated them on donkeys, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.

Bible in Basic English

And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand.

Darby Translation

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them riding upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

Julia Smith Translation

And Moses will take his wife and his sons, and will cause them to ride upon an ass, and he will turn back to the land of Egypt And Moses will take the rod of God in his hand.

King James 2000

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on the donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

Modern King James verseion

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass, and went again to Egypt, and took the rod of God in his hand.

NET Bible

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.

New Heart English Bible

Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.

The Emphasized Bible

So Moses took his wife and his sons, and caused them to ride upon the ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt, - and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

Webster

And Moses took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

World English Bible

Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.

Youngs Literal Translation

and Moses taketh his wife, and his sons, and causeth them to ride on the ass, and turneth back to the land of Egypt, and Moses taketh the rod of God in his hand.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And Moses
משׁה 
Mosheh 
Usage: 766

לקח 
Laqach 
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966
Usage: 966

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

and set
רכב 
Rakab 
Usage: 78

חמר חמור 
Chamowr 
ass
Usage: 96

and he returned
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

to the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

of Egypt
מצרים 
Mitsrayim 
Usage: 681

and Moses
משׁה 
Mosheh 
Usage: 766

the rod
מטּה מטּה 
Matteh 
Usage: 251

of God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

References

Easton

Hastings

Watsons

Rod

Context Readings

Moses Leaves Midian And Returns To Egypt

19 And LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt, for all the men are dead who sought thy life. 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand. 21 And LORD said to Moses, When thou go back into Egypt, see that thou do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in thy hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.


Cross References

Exodus 17:9

And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.

Numbers 20:8-9

Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water, and thou shall bring forth water to them out of the rock. So thou shall give the co

Exodus 4:17

And thou shall take this rod in thy hand, with which thou shall do the signs.

Exodus 4:2

And LORD said to him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A rod.

Exodus 18:3-4

and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom, for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.

Numbers 20:11

And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice, and water came forth abundantly. And the congregation drank, and their cattle.

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