Numbers 17:6

New International Reader's Version

So Moses spoke to the Israelites. Their leaders gave him 12 walking sticks. They gave one for the leader of each of Israel’s tribes. Aaron’s walking stick was among them.

Cross References

Ezekiel 37:20

Show them the sticks you wrote on.

Numbers 14:2

The Israelites spoke against Moses and Aaron. The whole community said to them, “We wish we had died in Egypt or even in this desert.

Numbers 14:9

But don’t refuse to obey him. And don’t be afraid of the people of the land. We will swallow them up. The Lord is with us. So nothing can save them. Don’t be afraid of them.”

Numbers 17:5

The walking stick that belongs to the man I choose will begin to grow new shoots. The Israelites are never happy with what you do. I will put an end to what they are saying.”

Numbers 17:7

Moses put the sticks in front of the Lord in the tent where the tablets of the covenant law were kept.