Numbers 17:8-13 ▼

8 And it comes to pass, on the next day, that Moses goes into the Tent of the Testimony, and behold, the rod of Aaron has flourished for the house of Levi, and brings out a bud, and blossoms [with] a blossom, and produces almonds;

9 and Moses brings out all the rods from before YHWH to all the sons of Israel, and they look, and each takes his rod.

10 And YHWH says to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the Testimony, for a charge, for a sign to the sons of rebellion, and you remove their murmurings from off Me, and they do not die”;

11 and Moses does as YHWH has commanded him; so he has done.

12 And the sons of Israel speak to Moses, saying, “Behold, we have expired, we have perished, all of us have perished!

13 Any who is at all drawing near to the Dwelling Place of YHWH dies; have we not been consumed—to expire?”