Numbers 17:1-5 ▼

1 The LORD instructed Moses,

2 “Speak to the Israelites and take one staff from them for each ancestral tribe, twelve staffs from all the leaders of their tribes. Write each man’s name on his staff.

3 Write Aaron’s name on Levi’s staff, because there is to be one staff for the head of each tribe.

4 Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you.

5 The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of the Israelites’ complaints that they have been making about you.”