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The rod; that rod which was laid up before the Lord in the tabernacle, as appears from Num_20:9. But whether it was Aaron’s rod, which was undoubtedly laid up there, Num_17:10, or Moses’s rod, by which he wrought so many miracles, it is not considerable; or whether it was not one and the same rod, which was commonly called Moses’s rod, as here, Num_20:11, and elsewhere, and sometimes Aaron’s rod, as Exo_7:12, which may seem most probable. For it is likely, though not related elsewhere in Scripture, that wonder-working rod, called the rod of God, Exo_4:20, was laid up in some part of the tabernacle, though not in or near the ark, where Aaron’s blossoming rod for a particular reason was put. Speak ye unto the rock, which will sooner hear and obey my commands than these sottish and stubborn people.