3.
God's vindication
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Num. 17
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Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
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Speak to the children of Israel, and take from them
1arods, one for each father’s house, twelve rods from all their leaders according to their fathers’ houses; you shall write everyone’s name upon his rod.
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And you shall write Aaron’s name upon the
arod of Levi, for there shall be one rod for the head
of each of their fathers’ houses.
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17:4
And you shall place them in the Tent of Meeting before the
1Testimony, where I
ameet with you.
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And the rod of the man whom I
achoose shall bud, and I will put a stop to the murmurings of the children of Israel against Me, which they
bmurmur against you.
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So Moses spoke to the children of Israel. And every one of their leaders gave him a rod, one rod for each leader according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods, with the rod of Aaron among their rods.
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And Moses placed the rods before Jehovah in the Tent of the Testimony.
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And on the next day Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony, and there was the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi: it had
1budded; it even put forth buds and produced blossoms and bore ripe
aalmonds.
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And Moses brought out all the rods from before Jehovah to all the children of Israel, and they looked; and each one took his rod.
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Then Jehovah said to Moses,
1Put back the rod of Aaron before the Testimony to be kept as a
asign against the rebels, so that you may put an end to their murmurings against Me, and they not die.
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And Moses did
so; just as Jehovah commanded him, so he did.
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17:12
And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Alas, we
1die out; we perish; all of us perish.
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Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Jehovah, dies. Are we to completely die out?
