1 Yahweh spoke to Moses saying,
2 "Tell Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, to take the censers from the blaze and scatter the fire some distance away, for the censers are now holy
3 because these men sinned at the cost of their lives. Let the censers be made into plates to cover the altar, because they have been offered before Yahweh and are sacred. Let them be a sign to the Israelites."
4 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers of those men who were burned during the offering and had them hammered out to make a covering for the altar
5 and to serve as a reminder to the sons of Israel that no one who is not a priest, a descendant of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before Yahweh, lest he become like Korah and his followers, just as Yahweh had said to Eleazer through Moses.
6 On the following day, the entire community of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have brought death to the people of Yahweh."
7 As the community was rising together against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the Tent of Meeting; and there was the Cloud covering it, and the Glory of Yahweh appeared.
8 And Moses and Aaron went to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
9 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
10 "Stand away from this community; I am going to destroy them here and now." The two of them threw themselves face downward on the ground.
11 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take the firepan, fill it with burning coals from the altar, put incense in it and hurry to the community to ask the mercy of Yahweh for them. The anger has come down from Yahweh and the terrible disease has begun."
12 Aaron did as Moses said and ran among the community, but the terrible disease was already at work among them. He put in the incense and asked for the mercy of Yahweh on the people.
13 Then he stood between the living and the dead, and the terrible disease stopped.
14 There were 14,700 victims of the terrible disease, not counting those who died because of Korah.
15 Then Aaron came back to Moses at the Tent of Meeting; the terrible disease had been stopped.
16 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
17 "Tell the people of Israel to give you walking sticks, one for each tribe; that is twelve sticks for the leaders of the twelve tribes, and write the name of each on his stick;
18 and on the stick of Levi write the name of Aaron because he is the first among the families of Levi.
19 Then put them in the Tent of Meeting before the ark, at the place where I meet you.
20 The man whose stick sprouts will be the one I have chosen; this is how I shall stop the complaints that the Israelites make against you."
21 Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a stick, twelve sticks in all for their tribes; and Aaron's stick was among them.
22 Moses placed them before Yahweh in the Tent of the Meeting.
23 On the following day, Moses came to the Tent of the Testimony and there, already sprouting, was Aaron's stick, standing for the tribe of Levi. Buds had opened, flowers had blossomed, and almonds had already ripened.
24 Moses took all the sticks away from before Yahweh and brought them back to all the people of Israel; they examined them and each one took back his own stick.
25 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Put back Aaron's stick before the Ark and keep it as a sign to these rebels, so that I will no longer hear their complaints and they may not die."
26 Moses did as Yahweh had commanded.
27 The people of Israel said to Moses, "We are lost! We are all to die!
28 Anyone who draws near the Holy Tent of Yahweh dies! Are we doomed to die to the last one?"
Versículos relacionados com Numbers, 17:
Numbers 17 presents the story of Aaron and his flowered rod. God commanded each leader of the twelve tribes of Israel to deposit his rod in the tabernacle so that the rod of the man who would choose flourish, indicating that this tribe would be chosen by God. The next day, the Aaron Court flourished and produced almonds, proving that God had chosen him to be the high priest. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in numbers 17:
Exodus 4:2-4: "Then the Lord asked him, What is this in your hand? He answered him, a rod. And he said unto him, Line it on earth. He threw it into the earth, and she He became snake; and Moses fled from her. The Lord said to Moses, He reaches his hand and picked up his tail. He reached out, picked up his tail, and she became a stick in his hand. " This verse presents a situation in which God transformed a stick into a snake, demonstrating his power and authority.
Leviticus 8:12: "He poured the anointing oil over Aaron's head, and anointed him to sanctify him." This verse describes Aaron's anointing as a high priest and shows how he was consecrated to the service to God.
Hebrews 5:4-5: "And no one takes this honor to himself, but when he called God, like Aaron. Thus Christ also did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but he glorified him who said unto him: You You are my son, today I generated you. " This verse compares Aaron's choice as a high priest to the choice of Christ by God to be the high priest of Christians.
Exodus 25:10-11: "You will also make an acacia wood ark; its length will be two and a half cubits, its width of a cubit and a half, and its height of a and a half cubit. "You are pure gold inside and out, and you will make a golden edge around it." This verse describes the ark of the covenant, which was one of the sacred objects in the tabernacle and represented the presence of God.
Hebrews 9:3-4: "Behind the second veil was the tent that is called Saint of the Saints, having a gold altar for incense and the ark of the alliance, all golden-covered, in which was a vase of Gold containing the Manna, the Aaron Court, which flourished, and the tablets of the covenant. " This verse describes the saint of saints in the tabernacle, which was the most sacred place where only the high priest could come once a year.
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