Nombres 17:5

5 Et il arrivera que la verge de l'homme que je choisirai, fleurira; et je ferai cesser devant moi les murmures que les enfants d'Israël murmurent contre vous.

Nombres 17:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 17:5

And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod whom I shall
choose
Or make it manifest that he had chosen him, and so confirm the choice he had made of him and his family, for the priesthood to be and continue in:

shall blossom;
bud and blossom, and yield fruit, as it afterwards did, which is here declared beforehand, that the miracle might appear the greater, exactly answering to a prediction delivered out before of it:

and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of
Israel, whereby they murmur against you;
against Moses for setting up his brother as an high priest, and establishing the priesthood in his family; and against Aaron for accepting of it, and officiating in it; but by this method now taken, God would for ever silence their murmurings, so that they should never be able, with any face, to object any more to the authority of the Aaronic priesthood, which should appear by the predicted miracle beyond all dispute and contradiction.

Nombres 17:5 In-Context

3 Et tu écriras le nom d'Aaron sur la verge de Lévi; car il y aura une verge pour chaque chef des maisons de leurs pères.
4 Et tu les déposeras dans le tabernacle d'assignation, devant le Témoignage, où je me réunis à vous.
5 Et il arrivera que la verge de l'homme que je choisirai, fleurira; et je ferai cesser devant moi les murmures que les enfants d'Israël murmurent contre vous.
6 Moïse parla aux enfants d'Israël, et tous leurs princes lui donnèrent, selon les maisons de leurs pères, chacun une verge, c'est-à-dire douze verges. Et la verge d'Aaron était au milieu de leurs verges.
7 Et Moïse déposa les verges devant l'Éternel, dans le tabernacle du Témoignage.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.