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The Memorial

10 The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end[a] before me, that they will not die.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 17:10 tn The verb means “to finish; to complete” and here “to bring to an end.” It is the imperfect following the imperative, and so introduces a purpose clause (as a final imperfect).
  2. Numbers 17:10 tn This is another final imperfect in a purpose clause.

10 The Lord said to Moses, “Put back Aaron’s staff(A) in front of the ark of the covenant law, to be kept as a sign to the rebellious.(B) This will put an end to their grumbling against me, so that they will not die.”

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