Numbers 17:3 - Tree of Life Version

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

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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. Levi lived 137 years.

Exodus 6:20

Amram married Jochebed, his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

Jeremiah 42:20

For you have led your own souls in error, since it was you who sent me to Adonai your God, saying: ‘Pray to Adonai our God on our behalf, and in accord with all that Adonai our God will say, so declare to us, and we will do it.

Ezekiel 37:16

“You, son of man, take one stick and write on it, ‘For Judah’—for Bnei-Yisrael joined with him. Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph’—the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel joined with him.

Numbers 17:2

“Speak to Bnei-Yisrael and get a rod from each ancestral house, twelve staffs in all, from each prince according to his ancestral household. Write each man’s name on his staff.

Numbers 17:4

Then you are to place them in the Tent of Meeting, before the Testimony, where I meet with you.

Numbers 18:1

Adonai said to Aaron, “You, your sons, and the house of your father with you will bear the guilt for the Sanctuary, and you and your sons will bear the guilt for your priesthood.

Numbers 18:7

But you and your sons with you are to maintain your priesthood for everything pertaining to the altar and inside the parokhet . I am giving you the ministry of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone unauthorized who approaches will die.”

Numbers 26:10

Then the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, whose followers died when the fire consumed the 250 men, these men serving as a warning.