1 Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
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.
3 Write Aaron’s name on Levi’s staff, for there is to be one staff for the prince of each tribe.
4 Then you are to place them in the Tent of Meeting, before the Testimony, where I meet with you.
5 It will come about that the staff of the man I choose will sprout. I will then rid Myself of the grumblings of Bnei-Yisrael, who are grumbling against you.”
6 So Moses spoke to Bnei-Yisrael. Each of their princes gave him a staff, one staff for each prince according to their ancestral houses, twelve staffs in all, and Aaron’s staff was among them.