Numbers 17:1-3

International Standard Version

The Budding of Aaron’s Rod

17 ^[a]The Lord instructed Moses, ² “Tell the Israelis to take a rod—one from each ancestral house, that is, one from every leader, for a total of twelve rods. Write each tribal name on his rod. ³ You are also to write Aaron’s name on the tribe of Levi, since there is to be one rod for every leader of their ancestral tribes.