⁶And Moses spoke to the children of Israel: and all the princes gave him rods one for every tribe: and there were twelve rods besides the rod of Aaron.

⁷And when Moses had laid them up before the Lord in the tabernacle of the testimony:

⁸He returned on the following day, and found that the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded: and that the buds swelling it hid bloomed blossoms, which spreading the leaves, were formed into almonds.

⁹Moses therefore brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the children of Israel: and they saw, and every one received their rods.

¹⁰And the Lord said to Moses: Carry back the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be kept there for a token of the rebellious children of Israel, and that their complaints may cease from me lest they die.

¹¹And Moses did as the Lord had commanded.

¹²And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, we all perish.

¹³Whosoever approacheth to the tabernacle of the Lord, he dieth. Are we all to a man to be utterly destroyed?

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