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Numbers 17

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1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod. ✦ 3You shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses. ✦ 4You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. ✦ 5It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me.” ✦ 6Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods. Aaron’s rod was among their rods. 7Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the Tent of the Testimony. ✦ 8On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. ✦ 9Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel. They looked, and each man took his rod. 10Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.” ✦ 11Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did. 12The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone! ✦ 13Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Num 16 ·5Num 17 ·4Num 18 ·4Ezek 19 ·3Num 1 ·2Heb 9 ·2Ps 110 ·2Eph 2 ·2

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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.

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