Numbers 17:9
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New International Version (©2011)
Then Moses brought out all the staffs from the LORD's presence to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each of the leaders took his own staff.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When Moses brought all the staffs out from the LORD's presence, he showed them to the people. Each man claimed his own staff.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the people of Israel. And they looked, and each man took his staff.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Moses then brought out all the rods from the presence of the LORD to all the sons of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Moses then brought out all the staffs from the LORD's presence to all the Israelites. They saw them, and each man took his own staff.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then Moses took out all the rods from the LORD's presence to show all the Israelis. Everybody looked, and then each man took his rod.

NET Bible (©2006)
So Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each man took his staff.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Moses brought out the staffs from the LORD's presence and showed them to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each man took his staff.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

American King James Version
And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

American Standard Version
And Moses brought out all the rods from before Jehovah unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses therefore brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the children of Israel: and they saw, and every one received their rods.

Darby Bible Translation
And Moses brought out all the staves from before Jehovah to all the children of Israel, and they looked and took each one his staff.

English Revised Version
And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

World English Bible
Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

Young's Literal Translation
and Moses bringeth out all the rods from before Jehovah, unto all the sons of Israel, and they look, and take each his rod.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:8-13 While all the other rods remained as they were. Aaron's rod became a living branch. In some places there were buds, in others blossoms, in others fruit, at the same time; all this was miraculous. Thus Aaron was manifested to be under the special blessing of Heaven. Fruitfulness is the best evidence of a Divine call; and the plants of God's setting, and the boughs cut off them, will flourish. This rod was preserved, to take away the murmurings of the people, that they might not die. The design of God, in all his providences, and in the memorials of them, is to take away sin. Christ was manifested to take away sin. Christ is expressly called a rod out of the stem of Jesse: little prospect was there, according to human views, that he should ever flourish. But the dry rod revived and blossomed to the confusion of his adversaries. The people cry, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish! This was the language of a repining people, quarrelling with the judgments of God, which by their own pride and obstinacy they brought upon themselves. It is very wicked to fret against God when we are in affliction, and in our distress thus to trespass yet more. If we die, if we perish, it is of ourselves, and the blame will be upon our own heads. When God judges, he will overcome, and will oblige the most obstinate gainsayers to confess their folly. And how great are our mercies, that we have a clearer and a better dispensation, established upon better promises!

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 9. - And took every man his rod. So that they saw for themselves that their rods remained dry and barren as they were by nature, while Aaron's had been made to live.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord, unto all the children of Israel,.... He brought them out of the holy place, and showed them to the princes of the several tribes:

and they looked, and took every man his rod; which they knew by their names upon them; by their own handwriting, as Aben Ezra; for though Moses is bid to write their names on them, Numbers 17:2; yet no more may be meant by that than that he should order them to be written, and take care that they were.

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Aaron's Staff Buds
…8And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds. 9And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod. 10And the LORD said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and you shall quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not. …

Numbers 17:8 The next day Moses entered the tent and saw that Aaron's staff, which represented the tribe of Levi, had not only sprouted but had budded, blossomed and produced almonds.
Numbers 17:10 The LORD said to Moses, "Put back Aaron's staff in front of the ark of the covenant law, to be kept as a sign to the rebellious. This will put an end to their grumbling against me, so that they will not die."