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[1] The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
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Speak to the Israelites, and get twelve staffs from them, one for each ancestral house, from all the leaders of their ancestral houses. Write each man’s name on his staff, |
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and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be one staff for the head of each ancestral house. |
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Place them in the tent of meeting before the covenant, [2] where I meet with you. |
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And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will put a stop to the complaints of the Israelites that they continually make against you. |
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Moses spoke to the Israelites; and all their leaders gave him staffs, one for each leader, according to their ancestral houses, twelve staffs; and the staff of Aaron was among theirs. |
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So Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the tent of the covenant. [3] |
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When Moses went into the tent of the covenant [4] on the next day, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted. It put forth buds, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. |
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Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the Israelites; and they looked, and each man took his staff. |
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And the LORD said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the covenant, [5] to be kept as a warning to rebels, so that you may make an end of their complaints against me, or else they will die.” |
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Moses did so; just as the LORD commanded him, so he did. |
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The Israelites said to Moses, “We are perishing; we are lost, all of us are lost! |
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Everyone who approaches the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all to perish?” |
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