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Chapter 17

¹The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each father's house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff, ³and write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be one staff for the head of each father's house. ⁴Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. ⁵And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout. Thus I will make to cease from me the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against you.” ⁶Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him staffs, one for each chief, according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. And the staff of Aaron was among their staffs. ⁷So Moses deposited the staffs before the LORD in the tent of the testimony. ⁸And on the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds. ⁹Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the people of Israel. And they looked, and each man took his staff. ¹⁰And the LORD said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make to cease their grumblings against me, lest they die.” ¹¹Thus did Moses; as the LORD commanded him, so he did. ¹²And the people of Israel said to Moses, “Behold, we perish, we are undone, we all are undone! ¹³Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, dies! Shall we all perish?”