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.