| Christian Standard Bible | King James Bible |
| 1The LORD instructed Moses: | 1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 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. | 2Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod. |
| 3Write Aaron's name on Levi's staff, because there is to be one staff for the head of each tribe. | 3And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers. |
| 4Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you. | 4And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you. |
| 5The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of the Israelites' complaints that they have been making about you." | 5And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you. |
| 6So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. Aaron's staff was among them. | 6And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. |
| 7Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the tent of the testimony. | 7And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness. |
| 8The next day Moses entered the tent of the testimony and saw that Aaron's staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, formed buds, blossomed, and produced almonds! | 8And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds. |
| 9Moses then brought out all the staffs from the LORD's presence to all the Israelites. They saw them, and each man took his own staff. | 9And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod. |
| 10The LORD told Moses, "Put Aaron's staff back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign for the rebels, so that you may put an end to their complaints before me, or else they will die." | 10And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not. |
| 11So Moses did as the LORD commanded him. | 11And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he. |
| 12Then the Israelites declared to Moses, "Look, we're perishing! We're lost; we're all lost! | 12And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. |
| 13Anyone who comes near the LORD's tabernacle will die. Will we all perish?" | 13Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying? |
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