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Numbers 20:8

Numbers 20:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

the rod: Numbers 21:15, Numbers 21:18; Exodus 4:2, Exodus 4:17, Exodus 7:20, Exodus 14:16, Exodus 17:5, Exodus 17:9

speak: Genesis 18:14; Joshua 6:5, Joshua 6:20; Psalms 33:9; Matthew 21:21; Mark 11:22-24; Luke 11:13; John 4:10-14, John 16:24; Acts 1:14, Acts 2:1-4; Revelation 22:1, Revelation 22:17

bring forth: Numbers 20:11; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalms 78:15-16, Psalms 105:41, Psalms 114:8; Isaiah 41:17-18, Isaiah 43:20; Isaiah 48:21

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