Numbers 17:1-3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Budding of Aaron’s Rod

17 ^[a] The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ² Speak to the Israelites, and get twelve staffs from them, one for each ancestral house, from all the leaders of their ancestral houses. Write each man’s name on his staff, ³ and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be one staff for the head of each ancestral house.