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Aaron's Staff Chosen
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# Chapter 17
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1. The Lord instructed Moses,
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2. "Speak to the Israelites and take one staff from them for each ancestral tribe, twelve staffs from all the leaders of their tribes. Write each man's name on his staff.
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3. Write Aaron's name on Levi's staff, because there is to be one staff for the head of each tribe.
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4. Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you.
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5. The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of the Israelites' complaints that they have been making about you."
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6. So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. Aaron's staff was among them.
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7. Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.
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8. The next day Moses entered the tent of the testimony and saw that Aaron's staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, formed buds, blossomed, and produced almonds!
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9. Moses then brought out all the staffs from the Lord's presence to all the Israelites. They saw them, and each man took his own staff.
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10. The Lord told Moses, "Put Aaron's staff back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign for the rebels, so that you may put an end to their complaints before me, or else they will die."
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11. So Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
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12. Then the Israelites declared to Moses, "Look, we're perishing! We're lost; we're all lost!
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13. Anyone who comes near the Lord's tabernacle will die. Will we all perish?"
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