staff

Scripture references

• Genesis 32:11

  I am unworthy of all the faithful love and constancy you have shown your servant. With only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have grown into two camps.

• Genesis 38:18

  'What pledge shall I give you?' he asked. 'Your seal and cord and the staff in your hand,' she replied. And he gave them to her, and they slept together, and she conceived by him.

• Genesis 49:10

  The sceptre shall not pass from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute be brought him and the peoples render him obedience.

• Exodus 4:2

  Yahweh then said, 'What is that in your hand?' 'A staff,' he said.

• Exodus 4:3

  'Throw it on the ground,' said Yahweh. Moses threw it on the ground; the staff turned into a snake and Moses recoiled from it.

• Exodus 4:4

  Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Reach out your hand and catch it by the tail.' He reached out his hand, caught it, and in his hand it turned back into a staff.

• Exodus 4:17

  And take this staff in your hand; with this you will perform the signs.'

• Exodus 4:20

  So Moses took his wife and his son and, putting them on a donkey, started back for Egypt; and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

• Exodus 12:11

  This is how you must eat it: with a belt round your waist, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You must eat it hurriedly: it is a Passover in Yahweh's honour.

• Exodus 14:16

  Your part is to raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can walk through the sea on dry ground,

• Exodus 17:5

  Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go on ahead of the people, taking some of the elders of Israel with you; in your hand take the staff with which you struck the River, and go.

• Exodus 17:9

  Moses said to Joshua, 'Pick some men and tomorrow morning go out and engage Amalek. I, for my part, shall take my stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.'