‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall wash them off into the water of bitterness.

“Speak to the sons of Israel, and obtain from them a staff for each father’s household: twelve staffs, from all their leaders for their fathers’ households. You shall write each man’s name on his staff,

and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for there is to be one staff for the head of each of their fathers’ households.