The Memorial

17:10 The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end13 before me, that they will not die.”14 17:11 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him—this is what he did.

17:12 The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die!15 We perish, we all perish! 17:13 (17:28)16 Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the Lord will die! Are we all to die?”17