from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it
quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them:
for there is wrath gone out from Yahweh; the plague is begun.
016:047 Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly;
and behold, the plague was begun among the people:
and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
016:048 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
016:049 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and
seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.
016:050 Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting:
and the plague was stayed.
017:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
017:002 Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods,
one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according
to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write you every man's
name on his rod.
017:003 You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there
shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.
017:004 You shall lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony,
where I meet with you.
017:005 It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose
shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings
of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
017:006 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes
gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers'
houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was
among their rods.
017:007 Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony.
017:008 It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent
of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house
of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms,
and bore ripe almonds.
017:009 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all
the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every
man his rod.
017:010 Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony,
to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion;
that you may make an end of their murmurings against me,
that they not die.
017:011 Thus did Moses: as Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
017:012 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish,
we are undone, we are all undone.
017:013 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent of Yahweh, dies:
shall we perish all of us?
018:001 Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers'
house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary;
and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity
of your priesthood.
018:002 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father,