Lexicon :: Strong's H4294 - maṭṭê

“What should I give you? ” he asked.

She answered, “Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law this message: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these? ”

The LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand? ”

“A staff,” he replied.

The LORD told Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail.” So he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand.

“And take this staff in your hand that you will perform the signs with.”

So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took God’s staff in his hand.

“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent.’ ”

Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.

“Go to Pharaoh in the morning. When you see him walking out to the water, stand ready to meet him by the bank of the Nile. Take in your hand the staff that turned into a snake.

“This is what the LORD says: Here is how you will know that I am the LORD. Watch. I am about to strike the water in the Nile with the staff in my hand, and it will turn to blood.

So the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt ​— ​over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs ​— ​and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”

The LORD then said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, canals, and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the land, and it will become gnats[fn] throughout the land of Egypt.”

So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the land, and the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD sent an east wind over the land all that day and through the night. By morning the east wind had brought in the locusts.

“As for you, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

The LORD answered Moses, “Go on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take the staff you struck the Nile with in your hand and go.

Moses said to Joshua, “Select some men for us and go fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with God’s staff in my hand.”

“Look, I have appointed by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

“I have also selected Oholiab[fn] son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, to be with him. I have put wisdom in the heart of every skilled artisan[fn] in order to make all that I have commanded you:

Moses then said to the Israelites, “Look, the LORD has appointed by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

“He has also given[fn] both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.

Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD commanded Moses.

Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name, and they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.)

“When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

“A man from each tribe is to be with you, each one the head of his ancestral family.[fn]

“These are the men called from the community; they are leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of Israel’s clans.”

those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

those registered for the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.

those registered for the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

those registered for the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

those registered for the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.

those registered for the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400.

those registered for the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.

those registered for the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.

those registered for the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.

those registered for the tribe of Dan numbered 62,700.

those registered for the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.

those registered for the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53,400.

But the Levites were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe.

“Do not register or take a census of the tribe of Levi with the other Israelites.

“The tribe of Issachar will camp next to it. The leader of the Issacharites is Nethanel son of Zuar.

“The tribe of Zebulun will be next. The leader of the Zebulunites is Eliab son of Helon.

“The tribe of Simeon will camp next to it. The leader of the Simeonites is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

“The tribe of Gad will be next. The leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel.[fn]

“The tribe of Manasseh will be next to it. The leader of the Manassites is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.