OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 20:8

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“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”

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Verse 8. The rod, with which Moses had wrought so many miracles, and which was placed in the tabernacle, verse 9. It is called his rod, in the Hebrews 5:11. We do not find that the rod of Aaron, which budded, was used to work miracles.—Thou. Septuagint “you.” Both Moses and Aaron concurred in the action, (verse 12,) but Moses was the chief agent. Calmet.

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