Numbers 20:9
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New International Version (©2011)
So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence, just as he commanded him.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So Moses did as he was told. He took the staff from the place where it was kept before the LORD.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Moses took the rod from before the LORD, just as He had commanded him;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence just as He had commanded him.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So Moses took the rod in the LORD's presence, just as he had commanded.

NET Bible (©2006)
So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, just as he commanded him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Moses took his staff out of [the tent in] the LORD's presence as he had been commanded.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

American King James Version
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

American Standard Version
And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as he commanded him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he had commanded him,

Darby Bible Translation
And Moses took the staff from before Jehovah, as he had commanded him.

English Revised Version
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

World English Bible
Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses taketh the rod from before Jehovah, as He hath commanded him,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:1-13 After thirty-eight years' tedious abode in the wilderness, the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congregation. We live in a wanting world, and wherever we are, must expect to meet with something to put us out. It is a great mercy to have plenty of water, a mercy which, if we found the want of, we should more own the worth of. Hereupon they murmured against Moses and Aaron. They spake the same absurd and brutish language their fathers had done. It made their crime the worse, that they had smarted so long for the discontent and distrusts of their fathers, yet they venture in the same steps. Moses must again, in God's name, command water out of a rock for them; God is as able as ever to supply his people with what is needful for them. But Moses and Aaron acted wrong. They took much of the glory of this work of wonder to themselves; Must we fetch water? As if it were done by some power or worthiness of their own. They were to speak to the rock, but they smote it. Therefore it is charged upon them, that they did not sanctify God, that is, they did not give to him alone that glory of this miracle which was due unto his name. And being provoked by the people, Moses spake unadvisedly with his lips. The same pride of man would still usurp the office of the appointed Mediator; and become to ourselves wisdom, righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. Such a state of sinful independence, such a rebellion of the soul against its Saviour, the voice of God condemns in every page of the gospel.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Moses took the rod from before the Lord..... Which was laid up somewhere in the sanctuary, as well as the rod of Aaron, Numbers 17:7,

as he commanded him; being always faithful and obedient to him that appointed him.

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Water from the Rock
…8Take the rod, and gather you the assembly together, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak you to the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock: so you shall give the congregation and their beasts drink. 9And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. 10And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? …

Exodus 4:20 So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
Exodus 14:16 Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
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."