1 Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said,
2 'Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick the censers out of the smouldering remains and scatter the fire from them away from here,
3 for these sinful censers have become sanctified at the price of human lives. Since they were brought before Yahweh and thus became consecrated, they must be hammered into sheets to cover the altar. They will be an object-lesson to the Israelites.'
4 The priest Eleazar took the bronze censers which had been carried by the men destroyed by the fire. They were hammered into sheets to cover the altar.
5 They are a reminder to the Israelites that no unauthorised person, no one not of Aaron's line, may approach and offer incense before Yahweh, on pain of suffering the fate of Korah and his party, as Yahweh had said through Moses.
6 On the following day, the whole community of Israelites were muttering against Moses and Aaron and saying, 'You are responsible for killing Yahweh's people!'
7 Now, as the community was banding together against Moses and Aaron, they turned towards the Tent of Meeting, and there was the cloud covering it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared.
8 Moses and Aaron then went to the front of the Tent of Meeting.
9 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
10 'Get away from this community. I am going to destroy them here and now.' They threw themselves on their faces.
11 Moses then said to Aaron, 'Take a censer, put fire in it from the altar, place incense on it and hurry to the community to perform the rite of expiation for them: for retribution has come from Yahweh, plague has broken out.'
12 Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the middle of the community, but plague had already broken out among the people. He put in the incense and performed the rite of expiation for the people.
13 Then he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.
14 There were fourteen thousand seven hundred victims of the plague, apart from those who died because of Korah.
15 Aaron then went back to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting; the plague had been halted.
16 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
17 'Tell the Israelites to give you a branch for each of their families, one for each leader of each family: twelve branches. Write the name of each on his branch;
18 and on the branch of Levi write Aaron's name, since the head of the Levite families must have a branch too.
19 You will then put them inside the Tent of Meeting in front of the Testimony, where I make myself known to you.
20 The man whose branch sprouts will be the one I have chosen; this is how I shall put an end to the mutterings of the Israelites about you.'
21 Moses spoke to the Israelites, and all their leaders gave him one branch each, twelve branches in all for their families; Aaron's branch was among them.
22 Moses placed them before Yahweh in the Tent of the Testimony.
23 On the following day Moses went to the Tent of the Testimony and there, already sprouting, was Aaron's branch, representing the House of Levi; buds had formed, flowers had bloomed and almonds had already ripened.
24 Moses then brought out all the branches from before Yahweh to all the Israelites; they examined them and each one took back his own branch.
25 Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Put Aaron's branch back in front of the Testimony, where it will have its ritual place as a warning to the rebellious; thus you will rid me of their muttering for good, without their incurring death.'
26 Moses did as Yahweh had ordered. That is what he did.
27 The Israelites then said to Moses, 'We are lost! We are dead men! We are all dead men!
28 Anyone who approaches Yahweh's Dwelling with an offering will die. Are we to be doomed to the last man?'
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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