“I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
Parallel translations
- KJV And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
- BSB I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
- NKJV “I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;
- NASB “I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;
- NLT I will examine you carefully and hold you to the terms of the covenant.
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Cross-references · 8
- Lev 27:32All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.
- Jer 33:13In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who counts them,” says Yahweh.
- Matt 25:32–33Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
- Ezek 16:59–60“‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
- Ps 89:30–32If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
- Amos 3:2“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
- Lev 26:25I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Ezek 34:17As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
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