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Aaron’s Staff Grows

17 [a]The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites, and get 12 staffs from them, one from the leader of each of their tribes.[b] Write each man’s name on his staff. Write Aaron’s name on the staff for Levi because there must be one staff for the head of each tribe.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:1 Numbers 17:1–13 in English Bibles is Numbers 17:16–28 in the Hebrew Bible.
  2. 17:2 There is a play on words here. Hebrew matteh can mean “staff   ” or “tribe   .”

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