Numbers 17:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ and write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi. For there shall be one rod for the head of each fathers' house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And you shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi [his great-grandfather]. For there shall be one rod for the head of each father's house.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.

Common English Bible

³ Write Aaron’s name on Levi’s staff, for there will be one staff for the leader of each household.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ But the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe of Levi, and one rod separately shall contain all their families.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe of Levi: and one rod shall contain all their families:

Numbers 17:3 Cross References

Exodus 6:16

These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being a hundred and thirty-seven years.

Exodus 6:20

Amram took to wife Jochebed his father's sister and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being one hundred and thirty-seven years.

Jeremiah 42:20

that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and whatever the Lord our God says declare to us and we will do it.’

Ezekiel 37:16

“Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the children of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write upon it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him’;

Numbers 17:2

“Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them rods, one for each fathers' house, from all their leaders according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods. Write each man's name upon his rod,

Numbers 17:4

Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.

Numbers 18:1

So the Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear iniquity in connection with the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity in connection with your priesthood.

Numbers 18:7

And you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any one else who comes near shall be put to death.”

Numbers 26:10

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; and they became a warning.