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Place them in the tent of meeting before the covenant,[a] where I meet with you. And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will put a stop to the complaints of the Israelites that they continually make against you. Moses spoke to the Israelites; and all their leaders gave him staffs, one for each leader, according to their ancestral houses, twelve staffs; and the staff of Aaron was among theirs.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 17:4 Or treaty, or testimony; Heb eduth

Place them in the tent of meeting(A) in front of the ark of the covenant law,(B) where I meet with you.(C) The staff belonging to the man I choose(D) will sprout,(E) and I will rid myself of this constant grumbling(F) against you by the Israelites.”

So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and their leaders gave him twelve staffs, one for the leader of each of their ancestral tribes, and Aaron’s staff was among them.

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