Numbers 17:2-9 speake vnto the chyldren of Israel and take of them for euery principal house a rodde, of theyr prynces ouer the houses of their fathers: euen .xij. roddes, & write euery mans name vpon his rod.

Matthew⁽ⁱ⁾ ² speake vnto the chyldren of Israel and take of them for euery principal house a rodde, of theyr prynces ouer the houses of their fathers: euen .xij. roddes, & write euery mans name vpon his rod. ³ And write Aaron a name vpon the state of Leui: for euerye headman ouer the house of theyr fathers shal haue a rodde. ⁴ And put them in the tabernacle of wytnesse where I wyll mete you. ⁵ And hys rodde whome I chose, shall blossome: So I wyl make cease from me the grudgynges of the chyldren of Israel whyche they grudge agaynst you. ⁶ And Moses spake vnto the chyldren of Israel, and al the princes gaue him for euery prynce ouer theyr fathers houses, a rod: euen .xij. rods, and the rod of Aaron was among the roddes. ⁷ And Moses put the roddes before the Lord in the tabernacle of witnes. ⁸ And on the morow, Moses wente into the tabernacle: and beholde the rodd of Aaron of the house of Leuy was budded & bare blossoms and almondes. ⁹ And Moses brought out all the staues frome before the Lorde, vnto all the children of Israel, & they loked vpon them and toke euery man hys staffe.