16 The Lord now said to Moses:
17 Speak to the Israelites and get from them a staff for each ancestral house, twelve staffs in all, from all the leaders of their ancestral houses. Write each man’s name on his staff;
18 and write Aaron’s name on Levi’s staff. For each head of an ancestral house shall have a staff.
19 Then deposit them in the tent of meeting, in front of the covenant, where I meet you.
20 The staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout. Thus I will rid myself of the Israelites’ grumbling against you.
21 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and all their leaders gave him staffs, twelve in all, one from each leader of their ancestral houses; and Aaron’s staff was among them.
22 Then Moses deposited the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the covenant.