Numbers 17:2-9 Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them a staff; a staff for every house of patriarchal families; from all the chiefs of the respective houses of patriarchal families twelve staves; and write every one's name on his staff;

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ² Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them a staff; a staff for every house of patriarchal families; from all the chiefs of the respective houses of patriarchal families twelve staves; and write every one's name on his staff; ³ and on the staff of Levi write Aaron's name; for he is one staff. The chief of the house of the head family in every tribe shall give; ⁴ and thou shalt lay them in the tabernacle of the testimony, over against the testimony. By these I will there make myself known to thee; ⁵ and it shall come to pass, that the staff of the man whom I will chuse, shall bloom: and I will remove from me this murmuring of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you. ⁶ So Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all the chiefs gave him, every one a staff; for every chief a staff, according to the houses of their patriarchal families, twelve staves, with Aaron's staff among theirs. ⁷ And Moses laid the staves before the Lord in the tabernacle of the testimony. ⁸ And on the next day when Moses went in, with Aaron, into the tabernacle of the testimony, behold Aaron's staff, for the house of Levi, had bloomed, and brought forth a bud, and had shot forth blossoms, and produced almonds. ⁹ And Moses brought out all the staves from the presence of the Lord, before all the children of Israel. And when they saw and had taken, every one his staff,