Numbers 17:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When Moses went into the tent of the covenant on the next day, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted. It put forth buds, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

Cross References

Genesis 40:10

and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms came out, and the clusters ripened into grapes.

Psalm 110:2

The Lord sends out from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your foes.

Song of Solomon 2:3

As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Isaiah 4:2

On that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel.

Ezekiel 17:24

All the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord. I bring low the high tree; I make high the low tree; I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. I the Lord have spoken; I will accomplish it.

Ezekiel 19:12

But it was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried it up; its fruit was stripped off; its strong stem was withered; the fire consumed it.

Ezekiel 19:14

And fire has gone out from its stem, has consumed its branches and fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.

Numbers 16:5

Then he spoke to Korah and all his congregation, saying, “In the morning the Lord will make known who is his and who is holy and who will be allowed to approach him; the one whom he will choose he will allow to approach him.

Numbers 17:5

And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will put a stop to the complaints of the Israelites that they continually make against you.”

Numbers 17:9

Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the Lord to all the Israelites, and they looked, and each man took his staff.

Hebrews 9:4

In it stood the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which there were a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;