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1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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 unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
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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And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
4 Place them in the tent of meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.
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And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with 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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And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur 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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And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
7 So Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the covenant.
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And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.
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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And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded 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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And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
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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And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
11 Moses did so; just as the Lord commanded him, so he did.
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And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
12 The Israelites said to Moses, "We are perishing; we are lost, all of us are lost!
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And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
13 Everyone who approaches the tabernacle of the Lord will die. Are we all to perish?"
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Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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