¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

¹亚伦的杖开花

²“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 every man’s name on his rod.

²“你要吩咐以色列人，要从他们手中取杖，按着父家每支派一根，从他们所有的领袖，按着他们的父家，共取十二根杖，你要把各人的名字写在各人的杖上；

³You shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.

³又要把亚伦的名字写在利未的杖上，因为照着他们父家各族长必有一根杖。

⁴You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.

⁴你要把这些杖放在会幕里约柜前，就是我和你们相会的地方。

⁵It 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.”

⁵我拣选的那人，他的杖必发芽；这样，我就必使以色列人向你们所发的怨言止息，不再达到我耳中。”

⁶Moses 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.

⁶于是摩西吩咐以色列人，他们所有的领袖都把杖交给他，按着他们的父家，每个领袖一根杖，共有十二根杖；亚伦的杖也在其中。

⁷Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony.

⁷摩西就把杖放在约柜的会幕里，在耶和华面前。

⁸It 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.

⁸第二天，摩西进约柜的会幕去，不料，利未家亚伦的杖已经发了芽，生了花苞，开了花，结了熟杏。

⁹Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

⁹摩西就把所有的杖，从耶和华面前带出来，给以色列众人看；他们看见了，各人就把自己的杖拿了去。

¹⁰Yahweh 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.”

¹⁰耶和华对摩西说：“把亚伦的杖放回约柜前，给那些背叛的人留作证据，这样你就使他们向我发的怨言止息，免得他们死亡。”

¹¹Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

¹¹摩西就这样行了，耶和华怎样吩咐他，他就怎样行了。

¹²The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!

¹²以色列人对摩西说：“我们要死了，我们灭亡了，我们都灭亡了。

¹³Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Yahweh, dies! Will we all perish?”

¹³走近耶和华帐幕的，都必定死；难道我们都要死吗？”