AARON’S STAFF CHOSEN

17 The Lord instructed Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and take one staff from them for each ancestral tribe,A twelve staffs from all the leaders of their tribes.* Write each man’s name on his staff. 3 Write Aaron’s name on Levi’s staff, because there is to be one staff for the head of each tribe. 4 Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you. 5 The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of the Israelites’ complaints that they have been making about you.”