⁶Moses spoke to the Israelites,^g and all their leaders gave him a staff for each leader, one from each of their families,^h twelve staffs, and the staff of Aaron was in the midst of their tribes. ⁷And Moses put the staffs before Yahweh in the tent of testimony.

⁸Then the next day, Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed and put forth a flower and produced blossoms, and it produced almonds. ⁹Then Moses brought out to all the Israelitesⁱ all the staffs before the presence of Yahweh, and they saw, and each man took his staff. ¹⁰And Yahweh said to Moses, “Bring back the staff of Aaron before the testimony^j as a guard and sign for the children of rebellion, and let them finish their grumblings before me and not die.” ¹¹So Moses did; just as Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

¹²And the Israelites^k said to Moses, saying, “Look! We will die! We will be destroyed! All of us will perish! ¹³Anyone who approaches the tabernacle of Yahweh will die. Will we all die?”^l

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Footnotes

gLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
hLiterally “each from the house of their fathers”
iLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
jOr “the statute”
kLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
lLiterally “Will we all die to perish?”