¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of them a staff, a staff for each father’s house, of all their princes according to the houses of their fathers, twelve staves: thou shalt write each one’s name upon his staff. ³And Aaron’s name shalt thou write upon the staff of Levi; for one staff shall be for each head of their fathers’ houses. ⁴And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. ⁵And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his staff shall bud forth; and I will make to cease from before me the murmurings of the children of Israel, that they murmur against you. ⁶And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their princes gave him a staff, one staff for each prince according to their fathers’ houses, twelve staves, and the staff of Aaron was among their staves. ⁷And Moses laid the staves before Jehovah in the tent of the testimony.

⁸And it came to pass, when on the morrow Moses went into the tent of the testimony, behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and ripened almonds. ⁹And Moses brought out all the staves from before Jehovah to all the children of Israel, and they looked and took each one his staff. ¹⁰And Jehovah said to Moses, Bring Aaron’s staff again before the testimony, to be kept as a token for the sons of rebellion, that thou mayest put an end to their murmurings before me, that they may not die. ¹¹And Moses did so: as Jehovah had commanded him, so did he. ¹²And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Lo, we expire, we perish, we all perish. ¹³Every one that comes at all near to the tabernacle of Jehovah shall die: shall we then expire altogether?

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