Numbers 17:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod by their kindreds, of all the princes of the tribes, twelve rods, and write the name of every man upon his rod.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Loquere ad filios Israël, et accipe ab eis virgas singulas per cognationes suas, a cunctis principibus tribuum, virgas duodecim, et uniuscujusque nomen superscribes virgæ suæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Λάλησον τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραήλ, καὶ λάβε παρ᾽ αὐτῶν ῥάβδον, ῥάβδον κατ᾽ οἴκους πατριῶν παρὰ πάντων τῶν ἀρχόντων αὐτῶν, κατ᾽ οἴκους πατριῶν αὐτῶν, δώδεκα ῥάβδους· καὶ ἑκάστου τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐπίγραψον ἐπὶ τῆς ῥάβδου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Numbers 17:17
- דַּבֵּ֣ר אֶל בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְקַ֣ח מֵֽאִתָּ֡ם מַטֶּ֣ה מַטֶּה֩ לְבֵ֨ית אָ֜ב מֵאֵ֤ת כָּל נְשִֽׂיאֵהֶם֙ לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֔ם שְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָׂ֖ר מַטּ֑וֹת אִ֣ישׁ אֶת שְׁמ֔וֹ תִּכְתֹּ֖ב עַל מַטֵּֽהוּ
Haydock's commentary
Speak. The cause of the different families of the Levites now being fully decided, that none of the other tribes might pretend to the honour of the priesthood, God orders Moses to propose another miracle to them, of a less terrible nature than the preceding one.
Man, or prince of the tribe. (Haydock)
The name of Aaron was written upon his staff, which was taken from an almond tree; those of the princes of the other tribes appeared upon their respective rods, and represented their different families, ver. 3. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.