Old Testament · Law
Numbers chapter 17
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spoke to Moses:“Tell the Israelites to bring you — one from each , one from each leader of their ancestral houses, twelve staffs total. Write each man’s name on his staff.Write Aaron’s name on , because there is one staff for the head of each ancestral house.Place them in the , in front of the — the place where I meet with you.The staff of the man I choose will . This will put an end to the constant the Israelites keep bringing against you two.”Moses told the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff — one per leader, one per ancestral house, twelve staffs total. Aaron’s staff was among them.Moses placed the staffs before Yahweh in the .The next day, when Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony, there it was — Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had . It had put out buds, produced blossoms, and grown ripe .Moses brought out all the staffs from before Yahweh to show the Israelites. They all looked, and each leader took back his own staff.Yahweh said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the Testimony. Keep it there as a for anyone who wants to — so their complaints against me will stop, and they won’t die.”Moses did exactly as Yahweh commanded him.The Israelites said to Moses, “We’re ! We’re lost! Every single one of us is lost!Anyone who even comes near — who even approaches Yahweh’s — dies! Are we all just going to be ?”