² Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."

¹⁷ You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

²⁰ Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.

³⁷ Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

³² All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.

² Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

⁴ but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked.

¹⁴ Shepherd your people with your staff, The flock of your heritage, Who dwell by themselves in a forest, In the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; In Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.