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And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on
incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath
gone out from the L
ORD
; the plague is begun.
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And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran
into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he
put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
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And he stood between the dead and the
living; and the plague was stayed.
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Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and
seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
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And Aaron returned unto Moses
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
CHAPTER 17
And the L
ORD
spake unto Moses, saying,
2
Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one
of them a rod according to the house of
their
fathers, of all their princes according to the house of
their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man’s name upon his rod.
3
And thou shalt write Aaron’s
name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod
shall be
for the head of the house of their fathers.
4
And
thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet
with you.
5
And it shall come to pass,
that
the man’s rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and
I will make to cease fromme the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against
you.
6
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod
apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses,
even
twelve rods: and the rod of
Aaron
was
among their rods.
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And Moses laid up the rods before the L
ORD
in the tabernacle of
witness.
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And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and,
behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed
blossoms, and yielded almonds.
9
And Moses brought out all the rods from before the L
ORD
unto
all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
10
And the L
ORD
said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for
a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die
not.
11
And Moses did
so:
as the L
ORD
commanded him, so did he.
12
And the children of Israel
spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
13
Whosoever cometh any thing
near unto the tabernacle of the L
ORD
shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
CHAPTER 18
And the L
ORD
said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the
iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
2
And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they
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