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1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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The LORD spoke to Moses:
2 Speak to the Israelites, and get twelve staffs from them, one for each ancestral house, from all the leaders of their ancestral houses. Write each man's name on his staff,
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Speak to the Israelites and take from them a staff from each household, from each of the chiefs of their households, twelve staffs. Write each person's name on his staff.
3 and write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be one staff for the head of each ancestral house.
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Write Aaron's name on Levi's staff, for there will be one staff for the leader of each household.
4 Place them in the tent of meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.
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Then you will place them in the meeting tent in front of the chest containing the covenant, where I meet you.
5 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.
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The staff of the person I choose will sprout. Then I will rid myself of the Israelites' complaints that they make against you.
6 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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Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their chiefs gave him a staff, one staff for each chief and his household, twelve staffs, and the staff of Aaron was with their staffs.
7 So Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the covenant.
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Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the meeting tent.
8 When Moses went into the tent of the covenant on the next day, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted. It put forth buds, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
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The next day Moses entered the covenant tent, and Aaron's staff of Levi's household had sprouted. It grew shoots, produced blossoms, and bore almonds.
9 Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the Lord to all the Israelites; and they looked, and each man took his staff.
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Moses brought out all the staffs from the LORD's presence to the Israelites. They saw what happened, and each person took back his staff.
10 And the Lord said to Moses, "Put back the staff of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept as a warning to rebels, so that you may make an end of their complaints against me, or else they will die."
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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Return Aaron's staff in front of the chest containing the covenant to serve as a sign to the rebels so that their complaints against me end and they don't die."
11 Moses did so; just as the Lord commanded him, so he did.
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Moses did exactly as the LORD commanded him.
12 The Israelites said to Moses, "We are perishing; we are lost, all of us are lost!
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The Israelites said to Moses, "We are perishing. We are being destroyed. All of us are being destroyed.
13 Everyone who approaches the tabernacle of the Lord will die. Are we all to perish?"
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Anyone who approaches the LORD's dwelling will die. Are we doomed to perish?"
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