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Numbers 17:1-3
New English Translation
Numbers 17:1-3
New English Translation
The Budding of Aaron’s Staff
17 [a] The Lord spoke to Moses: 2 “Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe,[b] one from every tribal leader,[c] twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff. 3 You must write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for one staff is for the head of every tribe.[d]
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- Numbers 17:1 sn Num 17:1 in the English Bible is 17:16 in the Hebrew text (BHS). See also the note on 16:36.
- Numbers 17:2 tn Heb “receive from them a rod, a rod from the house of a father.”
- Numbers 17:2 tn Heb “from every leader of them according to their fathers’ house.”
- Numbers 17:3 tn Heb “one rod for the head of their fathers’ house.”
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