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The Budding of Aaron’s Staff

17 [a] The Lord spoke to Moses: “Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe,[b] one from every tribal leader,[c] twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff. You must write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for one staff is for the head of every tribe.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 17:1 sn Num 17:1 in the English Bible is 17:16 in the Hebrew text (BHS). See also the note on 16:36.
  2. Numbers 17:2 tn Heb “receive from them a rod, a rod from the house of a father.”
  3. Numbers 17:2 tn Heb “from every leader of them according to their fathers’ house.”
  4. Numbers 17:3 tn Heb “one rod for the head of their fathers’ house.”